Anton Chekhov

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Anton Chekhov, who is often credited with inventing the modern short story, wrote many volumes worth of stories during his lifetime. Considered by many as one of the greatest short story writers of all time, Chekhov's extraordinary storytelling gift is exemplified in this volume of twenty-three of his most popular stories. "Ward No. 6 and Other Stories" includes the following stories: "The Cook's Wedding", "The Witch", "A Dead Body", "Easter Eve", "On the Road", "The Dependents", "Grisha", "The Kiss", "Typhus", "The Pipe", "The Princess", "Neighbours", "The Grasshopper", "In Exile", "Ward No. 6", "Rothschild's Fiddle", "The Student", "The Darling", "A Doctor's Visit", "Gooseberries", "The Lady with the Dog", "In the Ravine", and "The Bishop". This edition follows the translations of Constance Garnett and includes a biographical afterword.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neeland Media LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781420976526
• Artikelnr.: 62617649

Autorenporträt

Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. He trained as a doctor and practiced medicine throughout most of his literary career. Constance Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature and one of the first English translators of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov. Janet Malcolm is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Journalist and the Murder and In the Freud Archives, among many others.