The Complete Short Novels: Introduction by Richard Pevear (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

The Complete Short Novels: Introduction by Richard Pevear (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

by Anton Chekhov (Author), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator), Richard Pevear (Introduction), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator), Anton Chekhov (Author)

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 600
Publisher: Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.
Published: Aug 2004

ISBN 10: 1400040493
ISBN 13: 9781400040490

Media Reviews
Praise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, winners of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize:

The Brothers Karamazov

One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original. -New York Times Book Review

It may well be that Dostoevsky's [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now-and through the medium of [this] new translation-beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader. -New York Review of Books

Crime and Punishment

The best [translation] currently available...An especially faithful re-creation...with a coiled-spring kinetic energy...Don't miss it. -Washington Post Book World

This fresh, new translation...provides a more exact, idiomatic, and contemporary rendition of the novel that brings Fyodor Dostoevsky's tale achingly alive...It succeeds beautifully. -San Francisco Chronicle

Reaches as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English...The original's force and frightening immediacy is captured...The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard version. -Chicago Tribune

Demons

The merit in this edition of Demons resides in the technical virtuosity of the translators...They capture the feverishly intense, personal explosions of activity and emotion that manifest themselves in Russian life. -New York Times Book Review

[Pevear and Volokhonsky] have managed to capture and differentiate the characters' many voices...They come into their own when faced with Dostoevsky's wonderfully quirky use of varied speech patterns...A capital job of restoration. -Los Angeles Times

Author Bio
Anton Chekhov was the author of hundreds of short stories and several plays and is regarded by many as both the greatest Russian storyteller and the father of modern drama.