{"product_id":"complete-short-novels-of-anton-chekhov-anton-chekhov-9781400040490","title":"Complete Short Novels of Anton Chekhov: Introduction by Richard Pevear","description":"\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\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","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50564219699393,"sku":"9781400040490","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/complete-short-novels-of-anton-chekhov-anton-chekhov-9781400040490","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}