Anton Chekhov's Short Stories

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Anton Chekov, Ralph E. Matlaw, Constance Garnett, Anton Chekhov, : Anton Chekhov's Short Stories (1979, Norton)

369 pages

English language

Published Sept. 15, 1979 by Norton.

ISBN:
978-0-393-04528-4
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OCLC Number:
4036487

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3 stars (3 reviews)

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Review of "Anton Chekhov's Short Stories" on 'GoodReads'

3 stars

Perhaps unsurprisingly, for a retrospective collection, I found this very patchy. My favourite parts of the collection were actually some of the shortest stories, in which Chekhov did a wonderful job of painting a vivid scene and one or two very real characters in just a couple of pages each time. Some of the longer stories convey a deep sense of pathos, but there were also a few that just didn't engage me emotionally at all.

Review of "Anton Chekhov's Short Stories" on 'LibraryThing'

3 stars

Perhaps unsurprisingly, for a retrospective collection, I found this very patchy. My favourite parts of the collection were actually some of the shortest stories, in which Chekhov did a wonderful job of painting a vivid scene and one or two very real characters in just a couple of pages each time. Some of the longer stories convey a deep sense of pathos, but there were also a few that just didn't engage me emotionally at all.

Review of "Anton Chekhov's Short Stories" on 'LibraryThing'

3 stars

Perhaps unsurprisingly, for a retrospective collection, I found this very patchy. My favourite parts of the collection were actually some of the shortest stories, in which Chekhov did a wonderful job of painting a vivid scene and one or two very real characters in just a couple of pages each time. Some of the longer stories convey a deep sense of pathos, but there were also a few that just didn't engage me emotionally at all.

Subjects

  • Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Translations into English
  • Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • Short story
  • Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction