Chekhov Anton - The Willow And Other Stories - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Old Arkhip sits every day by the roots of a wizened hunchbacked willow fishing and exchanging whispered stories with the ancient tree. One of these takes Arkhip three decades back in time to a quiet day in early spring when a strange encounter shook him momentarily from the rural bliss in which he lived catapulting him into a world of crime corruption violence and murder. A quintessential example of Chekhov's artistry The Willow is here accompanied by thirty - two other short stories some of them never or rarely translated into English which are representative of the three main phases of the author's career: the short light - hearted pieces of the late 1880s the darker more pessimistic tales of his maturity and the psychologically nuanced stories he wrote towards the end of his life. Taken together this collection is further proof of Chekhov's unparalleled skills as a practitioner of the short - story genre.
Title: The Willow And Other Stories
Author(s): Chekhov Anton
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781847499172
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 8/20/2024
Category: Fiction In Translation