{"product_id":"anton-chekhovs-selected-stories-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393925302","title":"Anton Chekhov's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnton Chekhovs Selected Stories contains a wide spectrum of classics and new favorites  including Ward No. 6  The Lady with the Little Dog  Anna on the Neck  The Name-Day Party  The Kiss  An Incident at Law  and Elements Most Often Found in Novels  Short Stories  Etc. This edition features twenty-five brand-new translations  commissioned expressly for this volume from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky  Peter Constantine  Rosamund Bartlett  Michael Henry Heim  among others. Twenty translations have been selected from the published work of such master translators as Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher  Ann Dunnigan  and Ronald Hingley. Seven additional translations are by Constance Garnett  substantially revised by Cathy Popkin. All stories are annotated to clarify unfamiliar material and to point out differences in the translators strategies.  \"Life and Letters\" includes a rich selection of Chekhovs letters  some in English for the first time  some with previously redacted passages restored  as well as Aileen Kellys portrait of Chekhov.  Criticism explores the wide range of approaches and interpretations in two sections. Approaches juxtaposes five different perspectives on how to read Chekhov  represented by Peter Bitsilli  Alexander Chudakov  Robert Louis Jackson  Vladimir Kataev  and Radislav Lapushin. Interpretations contains ten divergent readings of stories in this edition. Case studies include Michael Finke on At Sea; Cathy Popkin on A Nervous Breakdown; Julie de Sherbinin on Peasant Women; Liza Knapp on Ward No. 6; Robert Louis Jackson on Rothschilds Fiddle and The Student; Wolf Schmid on The Student; John Freedman on Man in a Case  Gooseberries  and About Love; Caryl Emerson on A Calamity  Anna on the Neck  About Love  and The Lady with the Little Dog; and Rufus Mathewson on The Lady with the Little Dog and The Beauties.  A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included  as is a postscript on the translators and their work. A special section  Comparison Translations  gives passages from selected stories in multiple translations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666361049141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393925307","price":60.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393925302.jpg?v=1782429785","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/anton-chekhovs-selected-stories-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393925302","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}