Fifty-Two Stories (HB) by Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Fifty-Two Stories (HB) by Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their peerless renderings of fifty two Chekhov stories. These stories, which span the full arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex. Including several never before

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