Anton Chekhov (Author)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), the grandson of a former serf and son of
a grocer, was born in Taganrog, a port in Southern Russia. His
childhood was overshadowed by his frightening father, but he was
close to his mother. While he was at university, his father was
defrauded and went bankrupt, leaving the family in dire financial
straits; Chekhov supported them almost single-handedly by selling
stories and sketches to magazines. Although a doctor by profession,
he soon became famous for his brilliant stories and plays, and is
today recognized as one of the greatest short story writers of all
time.
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Richard Pevear, along with his wife Larissa Volokhonsky, has
translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov
and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The
Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina). They are married
and live in France.
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Larissa Volokhonsky, along with her husband Richard Pevear, has
translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov
and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The
Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina). They are married
and live in France.
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
*The Times Literary Supplement*
The indefatigable translating team of Pevear and Volokhonsky
deliver a first-rate collection of Chekhov's stories ... Encounters
between young and old, rich and poor, country and city people mark
these stories ... A welcome gathering of work, some not often
anthologized, by an unrivaled master of the short story form
*Kirkus*
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