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The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
A collection of stories such as "Peasants", "The House with the Mezzanine" and "My Life", in which, the author paints a picture of the conditions of the poor and of their powerlessness in the face of exploitation and hardship.
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The Beauties
Essential StoriesThe essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form
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Fifty-Two Stories
This beautifully produced edition from the veteran translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky collects, in chronological order, fifty-two of Anton Chekhov's short stories written between 1883 and 1898. It is a 'full deck', intended to reflect the diversity and inventiveness of the author's lesser-known fiction ... Their Chekhov is accurate, compelling and even graceful
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Plays By Anton Chekhov, Second Series
Plays by Anton Chekhov Second series brings together dramatic works that explore everyday life through subtle tension, restrained emotion, and quiet irony. The collection highlights situations where ordinary conversations reveal unspoken desires, disappointments, and social constraints. Rather than relying on dramatic action, the plays focus on atmosphere, pauses, and internal conflict, allowing meaning to emerge through small gestures and dialogue. Human relationships are portrayed as fragile and unresolved, shaped by habit, social expectation, and personal longing. Humor appears gently, often exposing absurdity within routine behavior rather than overt comedy. The introductory discussion frames these works as part of a broader artistic evolution, emphasizing a move toward psychological depth and emotional realism. Attention is given to moral fatigue, stalled ambition, and the weight of unfulfilled hopes. The collection presents society as quietly strained, where change feels inevitable yet delayed. Through understated drama, the plays examine isolation, responsibility, and the search for purpose, establishing a style where silence and nuance carry as much meaning as spoken words.
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The Best Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
Contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Anton Chekhov. Contained within this volume are the following: The Darling, The Bet, Difficult People, Vanka, The Witch, Peasant Wives, The Post, Dreams, The Pipe and The Lottery Ticket.
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Chekhov's Little Comedies
Five late-19th-century "Little Comedies" reveal Chekhov at his sharpest: lovers quarrel, creditors threaten, weddings unravel and a harried lecturer can't stay on topic. In this collection, Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's translations reveal these short plays to be rich human portraits: funny, bruising and unexpectedly tender. Adapted by Nelson to form a single evening, these plays honour vaudeville speed while digging into Chekhov's deeper themes of pride, longing, panic and the comedy of being alive. With a preface by Pevear and a director's note by Nelson. Includes: The BearThe ProposalThe WeddingThe Harmfulness of TobaccoSwan Song Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have co-translated Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, Three Sisters, Ivanov, and Platonov as well as plays by Turgenev, Gogol and Bulgakov. Pevear and Volokhonsky are the foremost translators of classical Russian literature into English; they have been awarded the PEN translation Award twice. Nelson is a Tony and Olivier Award winning playwright and director and an Honorary Associate Artist of The Royal Shakespeare Company. The Salamander Street Classics series offers classical plays in fresh, contemporary versions that preserve the writer's structure, tone and imagery while connecting anew with today's actors and audiences.
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The Seagull
A classic Russian play exploring the complexities of human relationships. Taking place on a summer estate in Russia, the characters are connected through their passions, rivalries, and unrequited love. Chekhov's timeless story has been performed around the world and is thought to be one of the greatest plays of the modern era. Featuring themes of love, jealousy, and emotional turmoil, The Seagull has been praised for its realistic dialogue and captivating plot. Experience this poignant and thought-provoking play translated into English by Tania Alexander and Daniel Sturridge.
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The Best Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
Contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Anton Chekhov. Contained within this volume are the following: The Darling, The Bet, Difficult People, Vanka, The Witch, Peasant Wives, The Post, Dreams, The Pipe and The Lottery Ticket.
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The Shooting Party (A Murder Mystery Novel)
Anton Chekhov's The Shooting Party is an ingenious early experiment in crime fiction, cast as a manuscript submitted to a publisher and gradually revealed as a confession of moral corruption. Set among the decaying provincial gentry, the novel follows a drunken examining magistrate, Sergei Zinoviev, amid jealousy, erotic obsession, and the murder of the beautiful Olga. Its style mingles feuilleton melodrama, Gothic atmosphere, and psychological realism, while ironizing the conventions of the sensation novel; beneath the mystery lies Chekhov's emerging art of ambiguity, social diagnosis, and pitiless attention to self-deception. Chekhov wrote the novel in the mid-1880s, when he was still a young physician and prolific contributor to comic journals, honing his gift for compression and tonal instability. His medical training, courtroom curiosity, and intimate knowledge of provincial Russia inform the book's cool observation of pathology-both bodily and moral. Though more plot-driven than his mature stories and plays, it already displays his distrust of easy judgment. Readers interested in the origins of modern psychological crime fiction will find this novel rewarding. It is recommended not merely as a mystery, but as a revealing apprenticeship in Chekhov's genius.
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Ward Six and Other Stories
This edition brings together seven medically-themed short stories by Anton Chekhov--a practicing physician as well as an accomplished writer who thought deeply about the relationship between literature and medicine. Each story has been freshly translated and includes explanatory footnotes to aid interpretation. The edition also features an introduction on Chekhov's life and times and a selection of contextual materials--most of them also freshly translated--that includes examples of Chekhov's thinking, as articulated in his letters and autobiography, about literature and medicine; critical responses to Chekhov's writing by some of his contemporaries; and excerpts from the memoirs of another late nineteenth-century Russian physician.
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Anton Chekhov: Collected Plays
Anton Chekhov: Collected Plays gathers the dramatic works that transformed modern theatre, including Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. These plays replace melodramatic incident with atmosphere, hesitation, and subtext: lives unfold through interrupted conversations, failed hopes, comic misrecognitions, and the quiet erosion of old social orders. Chekhov's style is at once realist and lyrical, tragic and comic, situating him at the threshold between nineteenth-century Russian realism and the psychological, ensemble-based drama of the twentieth century. Chekhov, trained as a physician and renowned as a master of the short story, brought to the stage a clinician's precision and a humane, unsentimental eye. His experience of provincial Russia, economic uncertainty, illness, and the educated classes' moral paralysis deeply shaped his dramatic imagination. Collaborations with the Moscow Art Theatre, especially through Stanislavski's productions, helped reveal the revolutionary nature of his understated dramaturgy. This collection is essential for readers interested in literature, performance, or the origins of modern drama. It rewards careful attention, offering not grand declarations but the ache of ordinary existence. To read Chekhov's plays together is to encounter a profound art of silence, longing, and change.
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The Shooting Party
The Shooting Party is Chekhov's remarkable experiment in the sensational crime novel, yet it already bears the psychological precision and tonal ambiguity that would define his mature art. Presented as a manuscript submitted to an editor, the narrative follows passion, vanity, and violence among provincial landowners, culminating in the murder of the alluring Olga. Its melodramatic machinery-jealousy, alcohol, aristocratic decay, and courtroom suspense-is continually unsettled by Chekhov's irony, moral restraint, and acute observation of social emptiness in late imperial Russia. Anton Chekhov, trained as a physician and writing initially to support his family, composed the novel early in his career under the pressures of journalism and popular taste. His medical eye for symptoms, his familiarity with provincial life, and his skepticism toward romantic posturing all inform the book. Though younger than the canonical playwright of later years, Chekhov here is already dissecting self-deception with clinical brilliance. Readers interested in detective fiction, Russian realism, or the evolution of Chekhov's art will find The Shooting Party indispensable. It is both an engrossing murder story and a subtle study of moral collapse, rewarding those who enjoy genre fiction deepened by literary intelligence.
€ 10,70