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The Kiss and Other Stories (Alma Classics)

The Kiss and Other Stories (Alma Classics)

by Anton Chekhov (Author), Anton Chekhov (Author), Hugh Aplin (Translator)

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    Paperback 2016

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Synopsis

While at a party organized by the local landowner for the officers of his brigade, the shy and awkward Ryabovich is suddenly kissed by an unknown woman in a dark room. This unexpected, electrifying encounter, which he relives in his mind day after day, marks a turning point for Ryabovich, showing him that everything in life - joy, sorrow, hope - is equally pointless and subject to chance. One of Chekhov's most admired stories, `The Kiss' is joined in this volume by six other celebrated tales in a brand-new translation by Hugh Aplin: `The Lady with the Little Dog', `Ward Six', `The Black Monk', `The House with a Mezzanine', `The Bishop' and `Peasants' - making this an indispensable collection for those wanting to discover Chekhov at his creative best.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Alma Classics
Published: 23 Jun 2016
ISBN 10: 1847494196
ISBN 13: 9781847494191

Media Reviews
What writers influenced me as a young man? Chekhov! As a dramatist? Chekhov! As a story writer? Chekhov! -- Tennessee Williams
The virtue of this story is its completeness, its summoning of human feelings perfectly matched to the events that produce them. * The Independent *
Author Bio
Anton Chekhov is one of the giants of modern literature, exerting a strong influence on many present-day novelists and dramatists. As a playwright, he ranks in popularity second only to Shakespeare in the English-speaking world. As a prose writer, he was one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and his anti-heroic realism, full of ambiguity and allusion, provides no easy moral conclusions and results in a new kind of narrative approaching real life in a way no writer had achieved before him.