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Peasants and Other Stories

The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life. This powerful and revealing selection from Chekhov's final works, made by the legendary American critic Edmund Wilson, offers stories of novelistic richness and complexity, published in the only formatp edition to present them in chronological order.

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Table of Contents

003 A Woman's Kingdom (1894)

053 Three Years (1895)

161 The Murder (1895)

199 My Life (1896)

311 Peasants (1897)

363 The New Villa (1899)

383 In The Ravine (1900)

433 The Bishop (1902)

455 Betrothed (1903)

Audience
adult
Length
long · 479 pages

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