About this title: In this collection of 20 short stories, the editor Richard Ford has selected his personal favourites of Chekhov's work. Includes are "The Kiss", "The Darling", as well as lesser known tales such as "A Blunder", "Hush" and "Champagne".
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780060956561ISBN:0060956569
Description: Very Good. Edited and introduced by estimable novelist Richard Ford, a few sentences underlined in pencil in introduction, 20 stories, 337 pages, no rips or tears, square in spine. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780060956561ISBN:0060956569
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Ecco Pr
Date Published: 2000-07-01
ISBN-13:9780060956561ISBN:0060956569
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Description: Very Good. 0880016078 First edition, First printing! This copy has been read, but is in great condition. Pages are clean and intact and there are no notes or highlighting. Minor wear on the cover and dust jacket. Overall clean, tight and unmarked copy. No remainder marks, price clips or other imperfections. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780060956561ISBN:0060956569
Description: Good. Book shows limited underlining in approx. 2 to 3 pgs. Other then this its a Very Good Copy. Clean Cover. Goodwillnyonline carries a wide range of quality new and used items at competitive prices. Goodwillnyonline is operated by Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey. A major provider of services for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. Minor writings/underlines. Inside pages are clean. Edge corner minor curled. Free track. Fast! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780060956561ISBN:0060956569
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. New York, NY, U.S.A. Ecco Press. 2000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xxi, 227pp. Near Fine/No Jacket. White glossy card covers, light shelfwear, a clean, tight, and unmarked copy. A balanced collection of 20 checkov stories that exhibit his gift for detail, dialogue, and humor. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ECCO
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780060956561ISBN:0060956569
Description: New. Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces--"The K... read more
"(Sorry, I'm posting this again b/c it wasn't showing up in my feed, I think I accidentally deleted it:)
My God, Chekhov's short stories are perfection. "The Kiss" is one of the best stories I've ever read. His plays may be meandering and sleepy but his stories are amaaaazing."
"I got onto Chekhov via Raymond Carver. Carver takes shards of lives and presents them in isolation (apt name), which gives them a strangeness and sort of heightened reality. What Carver learned from Chekhov, maybe, is that the protagonist can be weak and unexceptional, can fail to learn any lessons during the course of the narrative, and that the incidental stuff is where to look.
This book has some stories that are just brilliant in this way. Where, for one thing, the aspirations and grand designs of the people in them have next to no effect on what they end up doing ('Neighbours' is a really good one).
Some stories I got less from, and they were not all in this mode. But I am glad to have read Chekhov.
About the forward.
Richard Ford was a close friend of Carver - they were associated with the 'dirty realism' movement in the 70s - and it was Carver that brought me to Chekhov. So he has some sound reasons to write the forward. I didn't know about all this when I read it.
He begins, 'I have read very little of Chekhov', and then goes on to talk about a dimly remembered lesson at school.
My reaction was something like, 'why am I reading your forward then? And why in hell did you get to select the stories?
"Chekhov is great at getting at the background minutia of living and relating to others. He is very perceptive both of the essential sadness and suffering that are inherent in life, and the small-but-numerous ineffable and elusive joys that redeem it. An almost inhuman and strange chimerical combination of empathy and detachment pervades these stories."
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