Selected Stories - Chekhov (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853262889 ISBN 13: 9781853262883

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997

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With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comic sketches, as well as examples of his great, mature works. Throughout, the doctor-turned-writer displays compassion for human suffering and misfortune, but is always able to see the comical, even farcical aspects of the human condition.

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With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1853262889
• ISBN 13: 9781853262883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208