Book Jacket Status: Jacketed Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as
來源:香港大書城megBookStore,http://www.megbook.com.hk the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long
enough to be called short novels-here brought together in one
volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the
award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
"The Steppe"-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of a
nine-year-old boy''s frightening journey by wagon train across the
steppe of southern Russia. "The Duel "sets two decadent figures-a
fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility-on a
collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In
"The Story of an Unknown Man," a political radical spying on an
important official by serving as valet to his son gradually
discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held
priorities in startling ways. "Three Years" recounts a complex
series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow
merchant. In "My Life," a man renounces wealth and social position
for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the
moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human
nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in
Chekhov''s work.
目錄:
Introduction
Select Bibliography
Chronology
The Steppe
The Duel
The Story of an Unknown Man
Three Years
My Life