Love and Other Stories

图书信息

作者	Anton Chekhov
出版社	Seltzer Books
ISBN	9781455392339
出版时间	2018-03-01
字数	29.9万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,小说

读书简介

This collection includes: LOVE, LIGHTS, A STORY WITHOUT AN END, MARI D'ELLE, A LIVING CHATTEL, THE DOCTOR, TOO EARLY!, THE COSSACK, ABORIGINES, AN INQUIRY, MARTYRS, THE LION AND THE SUN, A DAUGHTER OF ALBION, CHORISTERS, NERVES, A WORK OF ART, A JOKE, A COUNTRY COTTAGE, A BLUNDER, FAT AND THIN, THE DEATH OF A GOVERNMENT CLERK, A PINK STOCKING, and AT A SUMMER VILLA. According to Wikipedia: "Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov’s last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a special challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text." Chekhov had at first written stories only for the money, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them."

目录

LOVE AND OTHER STORIES BY ANTON CHEKHOV

LOVE

LIGHTS

A STORY WITHOUT AN END

MARI D'ELLE

A LIVING CHATTEL

THE DOCTOR

TOO EARLY!

THE COSSACK

ABORIGINES

AN INQUIRY

MARTYRS

THE LION AND THE SUN

A DAUGHTER OF ALBION

CHORISTERS

NERVES

A WORK OF ART

A JOKE

A COUNTRY COTTAGE

A BLUNDER

FAT AND THIN

THE DEATH OF A GOVERNMENT CLERK

A PINK STOCKING

AT A SUMMER VILLA