Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (riverrun editions) by Anton Chekhov - ISBN: 9781787475946
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Lives intersected: love, loss, and the search for meaning.

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (riverrun editions)

a unique selection of Chekhov's novellas

$24.37

  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    28 May 2019

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Summary

A young man tries to figure out the best way to live.

A young woman struggles to assert herself within a regrettable marriage.

A doctor attempts to befriend his most interesting patient.

This riverrun edition presents a selection of Chekhov’s longer stories - novellas, effectively - in Constance Garnett’s timeless translations. These four stories, THE WIFE, THE STEPPE, WARD NO. 6 and MY LIFE, tell of …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781787475946
ISBN-10:1787475948
Author:Anton Chekhov, Constance Garnett, Janet Malcolm
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:riverrun
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:28 May 2019
Weight:306g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 28mm
Series:riverrun editions
About The Author

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. He trained as a doctor and practiced medicine throughout most of his literary career.

Constance Garnett

Constance Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature and one of the first English translators of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov.

Janet Malcolm

Janet Malcolm is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Journalist and the Murder and In the Freud Archives, among many others.

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