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Early Stories

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Oxford University Press, Jun 10, 1999 - Fiction - 208 pages
'Even if he had written nothing else', Ivan Bunin wrote of Chekhov's early stories, 'we would still have said that an amazing mind had flashed through Russian literature'. His youthful work immediately established Chekhov as a leading writer of both comic and serious fiction. The humorous tales have delighted Russians since the 1880s, while the many admirers of the more serious stories include James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield. In this selection, stories withpunchy endings jostle with outrageous paradies, fracical situations, the pastoral comedy of Romance with Double-Bass, and the absurdist humour of classics such as The Death of a Civil Servant. But the volume also contains some of Chekhov's finest stories about children, 'non-love' stories like TheLittle Joke and The Kiss, the hauntingly lyrical Easter Night, and the chilling Let Me Sleep. This translation does full justice to the masterful range of the young Chekhov; for those unfamiliar with his early work this edition will be a revelation.
  

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User Review  - Wayne - Goodreads

POST READ: A wonderful range of stories here, from what are termed 'cartoons' because of their brevity - humorous, ironic, satirical yet sympathetic...to ones that will just tear at your heart, the ... Read full review

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User Review  - Erma Odrach - Goodreads

It's easy to be sympathetic to all of Chekhov's characters, even in these early stories. Some are funny, farcical and even outrageous, while others are very sad. In the comedy "A Drama", Medusina ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
Rapture
9
Oysters
22
The Huntsman
41
Romance with DoubleBass
62
Verochka
130
No Comment
187
Notes
197
A Chronology of Anton Chekhov
203
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In this volume, Peter Sekirin has translated Chekhov's early stories, most of which have never appeared in English before. Sekirin has previously given ...
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Early Stories. Introd. and with notes by Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher ...... The Complete Early Stories I (2001). The New York Review of Books 48:19, 29 ...
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About the author (1999)

Patrick Miles is Russian Lector, Gonville and Caius, Cambridge. Harvey Pitcher is a freelance writer and translator. They have both written scholarly books on Chekhov's plays.

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