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Anton Chekhov


Anton Chekhov was the author of hundreds of short stories and several plays and is regarded by many as both the greatest Russian storyteller and the father of modern drama.

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Forty Stories
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Robert Payne
Introduction by Robert Payne

eBook | 384 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-77853-6 (0-307-77853-3)

March 9, 2011 | $13.99

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Forty Stories
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Robert Payne, Introduction by Robert Payne

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307778536
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If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these...

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Russian Literature

Hardcover | pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-70077-3 (0-307-70077-1)

December 21, 2010 | $194.80

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Russian Literature
Written by Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307700773
Our Price: $194.80
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A collection of great and beloved works of Russian literature from classic novels to masterly stories, including translations by award winners Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers.

Titles included:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov by...


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The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Anton Chekhov

eBook | pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-74296-4 (0-307-74296-2)

August 10, 2010 | $11.99

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The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Anton Chekhov

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307742964
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Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing 

In Anton Chekhov’s The Duel the escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast.

Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run...

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The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-74287-2 (0-307-74287-3)

August 10, 2010 | $15.00

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The Duel (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307742872
Our Price: $15.00
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Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing 

In Anton Chekhov’s The Duel the escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast.

Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run...

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Selected Stories of Anton Chekov
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Introduction by Richard Pevear

eBook | 496 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-56828-1 (0-307-56828-8)

July 29, 2009 | $13.99

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Selected Stories of Anton Chekov
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Introduction by Richard Pevear

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307568281
Our Price: $13.99


Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods...


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The Complete Short Novels
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear

eBook | 600 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-42829-5 (0-307-42829-X)

December 18, 2007 | $13.99

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The Complete Short Novels
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307428295
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Aanton 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 Steppe–the most...



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The Duel
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Constance Garnett
Introduction by Aleksandar Hemon

eBook | 128 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-307-43215-5 (0-307-43215-7)

December 18, 2007 | $11.99

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The Duel
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Aleksandar Hemon

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307432155
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First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel. When Laevsky, a lazy youth who works for the government, tires of...

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The Complete Short Novels
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Classics
978-1-4000-3292-1 (1-4000-3292-X)

August 30, 2005 | $21.00

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The Complete Short Novels
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400032921
Our Price: $21.00
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Aanton 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 Steppe–the most...

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The Complete Short Novels
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear

Hardcover | 600 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Classics
978-1-4000-4049-0 (1-4000-4049-3)

August 3, 2004 | $28.95

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The Complete Short Novels
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400040490
Our Price: $28.95
   Quantity: 1 


(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Aanton 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 Steppe–the most...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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The Duel
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Constance Garnett
Introduction by Aleksandar Hemon

Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Modern Library | Fiction
978-0-8129-7008-1 (0-8129-7008-X)

October 14, 2003 | $16.00

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The Duel
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Constance Garnett, Introduction by Aleksandar Hemon

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812970081
Our Price: $16.00
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First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a violent contest: the duel. When Laevsky, a lazy youth who works for the government, tires of...

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Chekhov: The Essential Plays
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Michael Heim

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Modern Library | Drama
978-0-375-76134-8 (0-375-76134-9)

August 19, 2003 | $11.00

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Chekhov: The Essential Plays
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Michael Heim

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375761348
Our Price: $11.00
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Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of...

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Chekhov: The Essential Plays
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Michael Heim

eBook | pages | Modern Library | Drama
978-1-58836-266-7 (1-58836-266-3)

August 12, 2003 | $8.99

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Chekhov: The Essential Plays
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Michael Heim

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781588362667
Our Price: $8.99


Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Introduction by Richard Pevear

Trade Paperback | 496 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-553-38100-9 (0-553-38100-8)

October 31, 2000 | $18.00

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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Introduction by Richard Pevear

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780553381009
Our Price: $18.00
   Quantity: 1 


Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods...


book cover
Forty Stories
Written by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Robert Payne
Introduction by Robert Payne

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-679-73375-1 (0-679-73375-2)

March 6, 1991 | $21.00

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Forty Stories
Written by Anton Chekhov, Translated by Robert Payne, Introduction by Robert Payne

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679733751
Our Price: $21.00
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Six Great Modern Plays
Written by Anton Chekhov

Paperback | 512 pages | Dell | Drama - Anthologies (multiple authors)
978-0-440-37984-3 (0-440-37984-9)

February 15, 1956 | $10.99

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Six Great Modern Plays
Written by Anton Chekhov

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440379843
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