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In the Ravine & Other Stories: Anton Chekhov (Macmillan Collector's Library, 209)

In the Ravine & Other Stories: Anton Chekhov (Macmillan Collector's Library, 209)

by Constance Garnett (Translator), Anton Chekhov (Author), Anton Chekhov (Author), Constance Garnett (Translator), Paul Bailey (Introduction)

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    Hardcover 2019

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Synopsis

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Anton Chekhov was one of the world's greatest short story writers. This selection ranges from the early stories which reflect Chekhov's liking for the farcical and absurd to the longer later works which display his confidence and maturity. In the Ravine & Other Stories is edited and introduced by Paul Bailey and using the classic translations by Constance Garnett.

From the Church Warden who's convinced his wife's a witch because strangers arrive on the doorstep whenever there's a storm, to the wronged wife who confronts her husband's chorus girl lover to the melancholy school teacher who imagines how her life might have been, these stories reflect the breadth and variety of Chekhov's genius.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 336
 Edition: Main Market
 Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
Published: 05 Sep 2019
ISBN 10: 1509899804
ISBN 13: 9781509899807

Media Reviews
Unsurpassed greatness as a teller of stories -- James Lasdun * The Guardian *
He [Chekhov] is the author of some 600 stories, some of novella length. These comprise titles which are among the supreme achievements in prose narrative and have been reproduced in a host of languages. To use that tired banality, they are 'world classics' -- George Steiner * The Observer *
These stories are a masterclass in life, in human beings and in fiction -- James Marriott * The Times *
Author Bio

Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 in Southern Russia and moved to Moscow to study medicine. Whilst at university he sold short stories and sketches to magazines to raise money to support his family. His success and acclaim grew as both a writer of fiction and of plays whilst he continued to practice medicine. Ill health forced him to move from his country estate near Moscow to Yalta where he wrote some of his most famous work. And it was there that he married actress Olga Knipper. He died from tuberculosis in 1904.

Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946) was one of the first translators to bring English language translations of Tolstoy Dostoyevsky and Chekhov to a wide readership.