Larissa Volokhonsky
1) Stories
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Presents English translations of thirty short stories by nineteenth-century Russian author Anton Chekhov, including representative selections from each of his major creative periods.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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--a full deck! 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, showing that there...
Author
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Here, brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppethe most lyrical of the fiveis an account of a nine-year-old boys frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern...