Read "Peasants and Other Stories" by Anton Chekhov available from Rakuten Kobo. The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Brand: NYRB Classics. The contemporary short-story is unimaginable without Anton Chekhov. He stripped the story of many of the features that had seemed essential to nineteenth-century readers: plot, narrative tension, and denouement. Terms such as "slices of life" and "sketches" are used to highlight the fact that often very little happens in Chekhov's short stories. · Peasants and Other Stories. Anton Chekhov and Others $; $; Publisher Description. The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and lifeCategory: Free.
Peasants. They are poor, dirty, noisy, lazy, drunkards -- but human beings. Chekhov doesn't spare anything in his description of the peasants. It's not a pretty picture. Yet, somehow, there is something majestic in village life. The air is pure and the people endure. They endure despite the poverty, the mistreatment by officials -- they do what. The Russian Master and Other Stories. by. Anton Chekhov. · Rating details · ratings · 19 reviews. Concentrating on the themes of the loss of ideals and the poverty of actual experience, this collection of Chekhov stories--taken from The Oxford Chekhov--includes His Wife, A Lady with a Dog, The Duel, A Hard Case, Gooseberries. The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Witch and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.doorway.ru Title: The Witch and.
ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV (–), the son of a grocer and a former serf, worked as a physician and ran an open clinic for the poor, while also writing the plays and short stories that have established him as one of the greatest figures in Russian literature. The stories in this volume have been selected to represent some of Chekhov’s greatest work, and “Peasants” ranks among his most important stories in both subject and form. This long story features the family of the waiter, who becomes too ill to continue working in Moscow and decides to return to the village of his birth with his wife. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, Title: The Witch, and Other Stories Contents: The witch -- Peasant wives -- The post -- The new villa -- Dreams -- The pipe -- Agafya -- At Christmas time -- Gusev -- The student -- In the ravine -- The huntsman -- Happiness -- A Malefactor -- Peasants Language: English: LoC Class.
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