{"product_id":"the-complete-short-novels","title":"The Complete Short Novels","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Complete Short Novels\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAnton Chekhov\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781400032921\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e576\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnton 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Steppe\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003ci\u003eThe Duel \u003c\/i\u003esets 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Story of an Unknown Man\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eThree Years\u003c\/i\u003e recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In \u003ci\u003eMy Life\u003c\/i\u003e, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov's work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"The Complete Short Novels | Anton Chekhov | Paperback | 9781400032921 | New | Fiction 1716098","offer_id":50844332818690,"sku":"1716098","price":32.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71KAKkMKhLL.jpg?v=1792703823","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-complete-short-novels","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}