The first of Chekhov's works to be published in a serious literary journal, 'The Steppe', with its masterly account of a spectacular thunderstorm, signifies his maturation as a writer of short stories. While the majority of his tales focus on the privileged classes, this selection shows that Chekhov never forgot his origins as the son of a failed provincial grocer, and characters as varied as the brutal soldier in 'Gusev', the downtrodden old constable in 'On Official Business', and the bemused peasants in 'New Villa' testify to the power and flexibility of his art.
| ISBN | 0199555451 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780199555451
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 191 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxford University Press | | Series title | Oxford World's Classics | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780192836984 | | Publication date | 25 Jun 2009 | | Height (mm) | 196 | | Translator | Hingley, Ronald | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 891.733 | | Spine width (mm) | 11 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 272 | |
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The Steppe; An Awkward Business; The Beauties; The Cobbler and the Devil; The Bet; Thieves; Gusev; Peasant Woman; In Exile; Rothschild's Fiddle; The Student; The Head Gardener's Story; Patch; The Savage; In the Cart; New Villa; On Official Business; At Christmas; Fragment; The Story of a Commercial Venture; From a Retired Teacher's Notebook; A Fishy Affair
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