New translations of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form
A beautiful collection of 13 classic Russian short stories by "the greatest short story writer who has ever lived" (Raymond Chandler)
>Chekhov wrote stories throughout his writing career, and this selection has been chosen from amongst his life's work, including many of his greatest works, alongside unfamiliar discoveries, all newly translated. From the masterpiece of minimalism "The Beauties", to the beloved classic "The Lady with the Little Dog", and from "Rothschild's Fiddle" to bitterly funny "A Living Chronicle", the stories collected here are the essential collection of Chekhov's greatest tales.
CONTENTS: The Beauties (1888)
The Man in a Box (1898)
A Day in the Country (1886)
A Blunder (1886)
About Love (1898)
Grief (1886)
The Bet (1889)
A Misfortune (1886)
Sergeant Prishibeyev (1885)
The Lady with the Little Dog (1899)
The Huntsman (1885)
The Privy Councillor (1886)
The Kiss (1887)
"This beautifully produced selection of the stories from Pushkin Press (in a new translation by Nicolas Pasternak Slater) is an ideal way to discover Chekhov."
— The Times (UK)"Mysterious and mesmerising, these stories stay enshrined in the memory."
— The Daily Mail"Near-perfect fiction, newly translated." —
Evening Standard"The uncontestable father of the modern short story . . . his stories are some of the best that have ever been written.---
Guardian "The language is subtle and lovely, full of a regretful tenderness."
— Sunday Express"Chekhov's genius lies in the way he manages to convey with such apparent effortlessness a profound sense of the mystery of beauty, and of the sadness of those who observe and think . . . a masterpiece of minimalism" --
Phillip Pullman "The greatest short story writer who has ever lived" --
Raymond Carver "In Chekhov literature seems to break its wand like Prospero, renouncing the magic of artifice, ceremony and idealisation, and facing us, for the first time, with a reflection of ourselves in our unadorned ordinariness as well as our unfathomable strangeness." --
James Ladsun
"These are snapshots of flawed humanity viewed through a studied, concise lens. They were a pleasure to read."
— Never Imitate (blog)
"This new Pushkin collection edition would be a perfect place to start [reading Chekhov]… I like Pasternak Slater’s use of words and he has done a great job keeping the wry humour of Chekhov and also his sense of human nature."
— Winston’s Dad (blog)
