The Complete Short Novels (Everyman’s Library)

Author: Anton Chekhov
Language ‏ : ‎ English

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1400040493
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400040490
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.38 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 1.3 x 8.3 inches

The Steppe—the most lyrical of the five—is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures—a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility—on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor.