Steppe

by Anton Chekhov, Paul Richardson

Overview

IT IS THE WORK THAT MADE CHEKHOV, launching his career as a writer and playwright of national and international renown. And it is an elegiac, beautiful story of a bygone era, with compelling characters and incomparable imagery.

Biographer Donald Rayfield said the tale was Chekhov's "memorial to a wild countryside that was now engulfed... Steppe is literally a masterpiece."

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781880100103
Publisher:	Russian Information Services, Inc.
Publication date:	07/15/2022
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian author of plays and short stories. Although Chekhov became a physician and once considered medicine his primary career, he gained fame and esteem through writing, ultimately producing a number of well-known plays, including The Seagull and Uncle Vanya, and a large body of innovative short stories that influenced the evolution of the form.