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Title: Anton Chekov's Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ISBN: 0-393-09002-7 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.40 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Poor translations
Comment: I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Constance Garnett ruins Chekhov for me.
Her work is reprinted for financial reasons, not artistic ones. Want to read "good" Chekhov? Read Robert Payne or Ann Dunnigan's translations. Yarmolinsky is good too.
Rosa La Luna
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best collections for readers as well as writers
Comment: This collection will expose you to not only some of the best short stories by Anton Chekhov, but some of the best stories ever written in any language. Chekhov's sense of mood and characters overrides his need to provide a predictable plot. He is the forerunner for America's beloved Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and may others in between. People may criticize some of Chekhov's Romantic devices and tendencies, but no one can deny the exactitude of his writing. His work is simple and does not rely heavily on existential characters and events, creating a timeless air.
For writers (and interested readers), there is an appendage of letters that Chekhov wrote to friends about writing. His advice is so right and simple that you'll wonder why your favorite author, or even you, didn't think of them first. Chekhov turns out to be a rather arrogant guy, claiming he never spent more than a day on a story and that his only job was "to be talented," but that is part of his charm. He is the link to modern fiction that is often forgotten. Buy or check out this book. It is a must.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the peaks of literary history
Comment: In over 35 years of reading adult literature, these are my all-time favorite works. Chekhov has an uncanny and incomparable ability: virtually nothing happens in many of his stories, yet as you close the book you are aware that something deep and wonderful about human character has been revealed. Chekhov has often been described as being unsurpassed in describing the RUSSIAN character, but I find his descriptions of people, their insecurities and their relationships, to be universal.
If you read books for the action, the color, or the conflict, you will find little of it here. All you will find is quiet and penetrating insight into what it means to be a human being living with other human beings.
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Title: The Steppe and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Wilks, Donald Rayfield, Anton Chekov ISBN: 0140447857 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Anton Chekhov's Plays (A Norton Critical Edition) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Eugene K. Bristow ISBN: 0393091635 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1977 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor ISBN: 0374515360 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics) by Leo Tolstoy, Mona Simpson ISBN: 067978330X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Portable Chekhov (The Viking Portable Library) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ISBN: 0140150358 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1977 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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