| The Wife and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Short Stories Contributor(s): Chekhov, Anton (Author), Garnett, Constance (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1603127968 ISBN-13: 9781603127967 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: This set of nine stories look at the troubles of Russian life under the czars with clinical clarity and apply razor-sharp satire to the follies of those who presume to have master cures. Self-righteous reformers, tightwad fathers and greedy sons, ambitious poor people flattering the vain and ignorant rich . . . there are few truly evil people in Chekhov's Russia, and that's part of the problem, because folly and greed are harder to admit to, let alone cure, than calculated malice. The doctor of human nature is in, and the results are seldom pretty, but often hilarious. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.91 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chekhov, Anton: - "Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 - 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theater. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress.""Garnett, Constance: - "Constance Clara Garnett (1861 - 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public." |