About this title: This text includes 28 stories from Chekhov, including: "The Man in the Shell"; "Goosberries"; "The Darling"; and "The Lady With the Pet Dog". A selection of letters is also included.
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Description: Good. 0670010359 Condition: GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, dust jacket missing, cover wear, name written inside cover, considerable underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, binding loose, binding slants, pages tanning / curling, etc. Overall, the book is in decent shape. This is a blanket description. Please email us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week ... read more
Description: Good. 0670010359 Condition: GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, dust jacket missing, cover wear, name written inside cover, considerable underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, binding loose, binding slants, pages tanning / curling, etc. Overall, the book is in decent shape. This is a blanket description. Please email us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week ... read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Some damage and wear, but inside pages are clean. I ship promptly and package with care. 631 p. 18 cm. The Viking portable library.. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. (082208) Small thick Trade Paperback (about same size as a Mass Market Paperback) is in Very Good+/Fine condition with wear at top spine corners, extremely light overall wear. [vi], 631 p.; 19 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [31]-32) read more
Edition: Twenty-Second Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140150353ISBN:0140150358
Description: Cover Design By Melissa Jacoby; Cover Photograph of Chekhov from the Bettmann Archive. Fine. 12mo-over 6Ÿ"-7Ÿ" tall. Trade paperback. Book appears in fine, unread condition. vi, 634pp. NO library stamps or markings. " Presents twenty-eight of Checkov's best stories, chosen as particularly representative of his many-sided portrayal of the human comedy-including "The Kiss, " "The Darling, " and "In the Ravine" as well as two complete plays: 'The Boor', an example of Chekhov's earlier dramatic ... read more
Edition: Later printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press,, New York, New York:
Date Published: 1968.
ISBN-13:9780670010356ISBN:0670010359
Description: Very Good. Duodecimo, 7" tall, 693 pages, stiff pictorial wraps. A very good, clean, sturdy paperback edition with moderate shelf wear and slight creasing to the cover; binding tight, paper cream white. read more
Edition: 6/59 7th thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking (P35), New York
Date Published: c1947
Description: Rafael D. Palacios cover. good++, thick trade paper, pict. green/yellow covers w/ creases. 631 pgs, Inked name front cover & half-title pg, initials back cover; a few inked checks to contents pg. Clean text. Very serviceable! read more
"Sorry to say I'm underwhelmed, but it could be on account of the choice of stories. I didn't get much of the excitement I got reading a couple of his stories in school; unfortunately, I can no longer remember which ones they were. And it may be too late for me to have read The Cherry Orchard after Bloomsbury had already happened to me.
I was however very struck by "Gusev," "On Official Business," and "In the Ravine," in which the contrast of Chekhov's characteristic bleakness to moments that verged on the epiphanic almost redeemed him for me. I like bleakness, and I like how that kind of contrast deepens and complicates the bleakness, and I like the moments where his characters, stripped of belongings or pretensions or even life, contend with that bleakness (Gusev's corpse on its journey from the ship to the depths of the ocean, where it's poked and examined by the fishes; Lipa's terrible starlit cross-country walk after her baby is scalded to death). A collection of Chekhov's 800-odd stories that contained only stories like these would probably rank among the best books I'd ever read, but it's hard for me to tell whether to fault this editor's wish for a wider variety, or Chekhov's own failings as an admitted hack writer, for the weakness of this collection. Maybe you Chekhov fans who're in sympathy with my tastes can advise me (if you're not, then I don't actually want to hear from you), because I feel like I need to give the guy another chance, at least for writing things like this:
"...he felt that this suicide and the peasant's misery lay on his conscience, too; to be reconciled to the fact that these people, submitting to their fate, shouldered all that was darkest and most burdensome in life--how terrible that was! To be reconciled to this, and to wish for oneself a bright and active life among happy, contented people, and constantly to dream of such a life, that meant dreaming of new suicides of men crushed by toil and care, or of weak, forgotten men of whom people only talk sometimes at supper with vexation or sneers, but to whom no help is offered. And again:
"About a million times more accessible and enjoyable than I expected. Long and lovely descriptions of the Russian countryside, fascinating accounts of Russian cuisine - I was assigned to read this book ages ago and never did; shame on me and whoever else chooses not to read it.
The edition isn't without fault: at times the translation is quite dusty; the appending of two Chekhov plays to the volume of stories felt unnecessary - though the letters that follow are quite entertaining.
Anything that manages to trump my aversion to Canon gets a Slow Clap. Awesome book. Highest Recommendation."
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