Early Short Stories, 1883-1888
- List Price: $22.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Modern Library
- Publish date: 01/01/1999
Description:
The novelist, historian, and Russian literature expert Shelby Foote, author of The Civil War: A Narrative, has selected two books' worth of Chekhov stories, translated by Constance Garnett, to join the existing volume Longer Stories from the Last Decade in the Modern Library series. Chekhov's short fiction is one of the great treasures of literature. "Chekhov is not only a great writer but, even rarer, a liberating one", wrote Susan Sontag. "His perfect moral pitch, his freedom from all forms of demagoguery, provide essential solace, pleasure, inspiration".
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The first volume of seventy earlier stories includes "The Steppe", "The Cossack", "The Cook's Wedding", and "Joy". The second volume includes forty-two stories written up to the last year of Chekhov's life, much of which he spent suffering from tuberculosis. They include "The Horse-Stealers", "A Doctor's Visit", "The Lady With the Dog", and "The Bishop".
Each volume includes an Introduction by Shelby Foote.
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