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Three Years: New Translation
Contributor(s): Chekhov, Anton (Author), Cockrell, Roger (Translator)
ISBN: 1847497667     ISBN-13: 9781847497666
Publisher: Alma Books
OUR PRICE:   $7.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.25 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Russia
 
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A powerful novella about redemption and the nuances of human relationships that helped cement Chekhov's reputation as a major figure in Russian literature.

On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father's Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her. Although she does not reciprocate his feelings, she agrees to marry him and live with him in the capital, where the couple's relationship is marred by tensions: Yulia is filled with regrets about her choice and boredom with her new existence, while Alexei is nagged by the suspicion that she married him for his money alone. However, as time passes and misfortune strikes, they both learn to reassess all of their assumptions.

Chekhov's second-longest prose work after The Steppe, Three Years is, in the author's own words, "a novel of Moscow life" and an examination of its merchant classes. A powerful story of redemption and the nuances of human relationships, the novella helped cement Chekhov's reputation as a major figure in Russian literature.


Contributor Bio(s): Chekhov, Anton: - Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 in a small town on the Sea of Azov. His plays include Ivanov, Platonov, Uncle Vanya, On the High Road, and The Proposal, among others. As he was beginning to gain international recognition as a major dramatist, he suffered two heart attacks and died in Badenweiler, Germany.