The essays collected in this book constitute a new contribution to our understanding of the originality and significance of Chekhov’s prose. A close textual a

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In this luminous book of criticism, Chekhov's foremost Russian interpreter offers to Western readers a remarkably clear and commanding appraisal of the master's

From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influentia