Tales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short story Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. These stories...
Taken from The Oxford Chekhov, the stories in this collection include "The Butterfly," "Ariadne," "A Dreary Story," "Neighbours," "An Anonymous Story," and "Doctor Startsev," as well as the title story. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford...
Anton Chekhov, who is often credited with inventing the modern short story, wrote many volumes worth of stories during his lifetime. Considered by many as one of the greatest short story writers of all time, Chekhov's extraordinary storytelling gift is exemplified in this...
Ward Six and Other Stories is a broad sample of Chekhov's narrative genius. The work has been viewed as a symbol for the bureaucratic quagmire of czarist and Stalinist Russia. It is also a universal comment on the person versus the state. Ward Six is a hauntingly symbolic depiction...
V knigu voshli povesti A.P.Chehova (1860-1904) Step', Palata nomer 6, Dujel', Skuchnaja istorija i dr. Motivy toski sushhestvovanija i gnetushhej dejstvitel'nosti, chasto i pronzitel'no zvuchashhie v povestjah Chehova, ottenjajut ostrotu i slozhnost' perezhivanij ih geroev. Tonkij...
Ward Six and Other Stories is a broad sample of Chekhov's narrative genius. The work has been viewed as a symbol for the bureaucratic quagmire of czarist and Stalinist Russia. It is also a universal comment on the person versus the state. Ward Six is a hauntingly symbolic depiction...
Ward Six and Other Stories is a broad sample of Chekhov's narrative genius. The work has been viewed as a symbol for the bureaucratic quagmire of czarist and Stalinist Russia. It is also a universal comment on the person versus the state. Ward Six is a hauntingly symbolic depiction...
The six stories- Ward Six, The Duel, A Dull Story, My Life, The Name Day Party, and In the Ravine -here presented in memorable translations-represent Chekhov's narrative genius at the full range and power of its maturity. As masterfully constructed as his earlier stories, but...
I Dans la cour de l'h pital, perdue dans une v ritable for t de bardanes, d'orties et de chanvre sauvage, s' l ve une petite annexe. Le toit en est rouill , la chemin e demi croul e, l'herbe pousse sur les degr s pourris de l'entr e, et des cr pissages il ne reste que des...
V knigu voshli povesti A.P.Chehova (1860-1904) "Step'," "Palata nomer 6," "Dujel'," "Skuchnaja istorija" i dr. Motivy toski sushhestvovanija i gnetushhej dejstvitel'nosti, chasto i pronzitel'no zvuchashhie v povestjah Chehova, ottenjajut ostrotu i slozhnost' perezhivanij ih geroev...
V knigu voshli povesti A.P.Chehova (1860-1904) Step', Palata nomer 6, Dujel', Skuchnaja istorija i dr. Motivy toski sushhestvovanija i gnetushhej dejstvitel'nosti, chasto i pronzitel'no zvuchashhie v povestjah Chehova, ottenjajut ostrotu i slozhnost' perezhivanij ih geroev. Tonkij...
La sala n mero Seis. Ant n Ch jov. Rusia 1860 - 1904
La Salle no 6 est initialement publi e dans la revue La Pens e russe, num ro 11, en novembre 1892. Cette nouvelle connut un succ s consid rable lors de sa sortie2. Selon un correspondant de Tch khov, qui lui crit en mars 1893: Votre Salle 6 est dans toutes les vitrines, celles...