The Russian Master and other Stories - Brossura

Chekhov, Anton

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192836870 ISBN 13: 9780192836878

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1999

Riassunto

Nikitin, a schoolteacher in a provincial town, visits his neighbours, where there is always laughter, music, dancing. He falls in love with Masha, a daughter of the house, and marrying her, feels that he takes in his hands a happiness which only seemed possible in novels. But as his sensible, practical Masha weaves her nest, the point of Nikitin's snug domestic bliss begins to seem 'oddly blurred, somehow'. The loss of ideals and the poverty of actual experience are the themes on the stories collected here. Chekhov's Russians, at the close of the nineteenth century, are trapped in a prison of frustration; he never depicted with greater laconic power their spiritual desperation and search for ways of escape. The text of this edition is taken from the Oxford Chekhov.

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Contenuti:

His Wife; A Lady with a Dog; The Duel; A Hard Case; Gooseberries; Concerning Love; Peasants; Angel; The Russian Master; Terror; The Ordeal of St Anne

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Book by Chekhov Anton

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192836870
• ISBN 13: 9780192836878
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256