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A Life in Letters
Translated by Rosamund Bartlett
and Anthony Phillips
Introduction and Notes by
Rosamund Bartlett
Throughout his life, Chekhov wrote
thousands of letters to a wide range
of correspondents. Vividly evoking
landscapes, people, and his daily life, the
selection here offers revealing glimpses
into Chekhov’s preoccupations, taking us
inside the mind of one of the world’s great
writers.
224 pp. 978-0-14-044922-8 $16.00
Plays
Ivanov/The Seagull/Uncle Vanya/
Three Sisters/The Cherry Orchard
Translated by Peter Carson with an
Introduction by Richard Gilman
In these vibrant new translations,
Chekhov’s dramatic masterpieces portray
complex characters grappling with moral
questions. Though his works baffled
his audiences, Chekhov’s sensitive
explorations of love, loss, and time
revolutionized the theater.
416 pp. 978-0-14-044733-0 $10.00
The Shooting Party
Translated by Ronald Wilks
Introduction by John Sutherland
In Chekhov’s only full-length novel, Olga,
the pretty young daughter of a drunken
forester on a country estate, is desired by
many men in her life; when an attempt
is made on her life, it seems impossible
to discover the perpetrator in an
impenetrable web of deceit, lust, loathing,
and double-dealing.
224 pp. 978-0-14-044898-6 $15.00
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories,
1892–1895
Translated by Ronald Wilks with an
Introduction by J. Douglas Clayton
Impressionistic and bold, the nine stories
in this collection frame the middle period
of Chekhov’s career: “Ward No. 6,”
“The Black Monk,” “A Woman’s
Kingdom,” “Three Years,” “Murder,”
“The Student,” “The Grasshopper,”
“Adriana,” and “The Two Volodyas.”
368 pp. 978-0-14-044786-6 $11.00
See The Portable Nineteenth-Century
Russian Reader and The Portable
Twentieth-Century Russian Reader.
aPsley Cherry-garrard
1886 – 1959, english
The Worst Journey in the World
Introduction by Caroline Alexander
This enervating adventure story is the
first-hand account of Robert Falcon
Scott’s monumental expedition to the
South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard was
the youngest member of expedition,
which ended in disaster.
688 pp. 978-0-14-303938-9 $18.00
“The Worst Journey in the World is to travel
writing what War and Peace is to the novel
. . . a masterpiece.” —a. alvarez,
the new y o r k review o f b o o k s
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