The Beauties
Essential Stories
Anton Chekhov author Nicolas Slater Pasternak translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Published:30th Nov '23
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The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master of the form Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His short stories, written throughout his life and newly translated for this essential collection, are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. Here are tales offering a glimpse of beauty, the memory of a mistaken kiss, daydreams of adultery, a lifetime of marital neglect, the frailty of life, the inevitability of death, and the hilarious pomposity of ordinary men and women. They range from the lighthearted comic tales of his early years to some of the most achingly profound stories ever composed.
“This beautifully produced selection of the stories from Pushkin Press (in a new translation by Nicolas Pasternak Slater) is an ideal way to discover Chekhov.” —The Times (UK)
“Mysterious and mesmerizing, these stories stay enshrined in the memory.” —The Daily Mail
“Near-perfect fiction, newly translated.” —Evening Standard
“The uncontestable father of the modern short story . . . his stories are some of the best that have ever been written.” —The Guardian
“The language is subtle and lovely, full of a regretful tenderness.” —Sunday Express
“Chekhov's genius lies in the way he manages to convey with such apparent effortlessness a profound sense of the mystery of beauty, and of the sadness of those who observe and think . . . a masterpiece of minimalism” —Phillip Pullman
“The greatest short story writer who has ever lived” —Raymond Carver
“In Chekhov literature seems to break its wand like Prospero, renouncing the magic of artifice, ceremony and idealization, and facing us, for the first time, with a reflection of ourselves in our unadorned ordinariness as well as our unfathomable strangeness.” —James Ladsun
ISBN: 9781805330301
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224 pages