Peasants and Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

About this book

The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov one of the worlds greatest masters of the short story led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life. This powerful and revealing selection from Chekhovs final works made by the legendary American critic Edmund Wilson offers stories of novelistic richness and complexity published in the only formatp edition to present them in chronological order. Table of Contents A Womans Kingdom Three Years The Murder My Life Peasants The New Villa In the Ravine The Bishop Betrothed