The Party and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Overview

Unique Elements

• About the Author
• About the Translator

A Literary Classic by ANTON CHEKHOV.

The Party and Other Stories by RUSSIAN author ANTON CHEKHOV is a collection of short stories published in 1917 in London, the United Kingdom, translated from the Russian language by Constance Garnett.

The title story of this collection, "The Party," portrays emotional tension and conflict between Olga and her husband, two ordinary people who are unable to communicate very well with one another. The weather is hot and humid; the party guests are vain and argumentative. After she sees her husband talking outside of the house with a guest, the lovely Lyubochka, the pregnant wife Olga becomes distraught and later goes into premature labor, delivering a stillborn child.

Sneak Peak

'AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband's name-day was being celebrated, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talking incessantly, the clatter of the crockery, the stupidity of the servants, the long intervals between the courses, and the stays she had put on to conceal her condition from the visitors, wearied her to exhaustion. She longed to get away from the house, to sit in the shade and rest her heart with thoughts of the baby which was to be born to her in another two months.'

Context

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), a Russian playwright and short story writer, is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. He was a key figure of early modernism in the theatre and also wrote hundreds of short stories, while working in his profession as a medical doctor. "The Party and Other Stories," is a collection of his well-known tales, translated into English language by Constance Garnett and published in London in 1917. Other stories in this collection include "Terror" (1892), "The Teacher of Literature" and "A Woman's Kingdom" (1894), and "Anna on the Neck" (1895).

Title Details

• Translation by Constance C. Garnett, 1901
• Short stories

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783734019623
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	09/23/2018
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre.

Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 1861-1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English. She also rendered works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen into English. Altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today.