Tales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short story Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career include - influenced by his own experiences as a doctor - 'Ward No. 6', a savage indictment of the medical profession set in a mental hospital; 'The Black Monk', portraying an academic who has strange hallucinations, ...
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Tales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short story Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career include - influenced by his own experiences as a doctor - 'Ward No. 6', a savage indictment of the medical profession set in a mental hospital; 'The Black Monk', portraying an academic who has strange hallucinations, explores ideas of genius and insanity; 'Murder', in which religious fervour leads to violence; while in 'The Student', Chekhov's favourite story, a young man recounts a tale from the gospels and undergoes a spiritual epiphany. In all the stories collected here, Chekhov's characters face madness, alienation and frustration before they experience brief, ephemeral moments of insight, often earned at great cost, where they confront the reality of their existence. This is the second in three chronological volumes of Chekhov's short stories in Penguin Classics. Ronald Wilks's lucid translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing the increasingly experimental style of Chekhov's writing during this time. This edition also contains an annotated bibliography, chronology and explanatory notes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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New York. 2002. Penguin Books. 1st Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0140447865. Translated from the Russian & With Notes by Ronlad Wilks. Introduction by J. Douglas Clayton. 333 pages. paperback. The cover shows a detail from Sleepless Night, 1903, by Nikolai Romadin in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. keywords: Literature Russia Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Impressionistic and experimental, these stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career explore complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions, presenting a world without easy answers or universal truths. Influenced by Chekhov's experiences as a doctor, ‘Ward No. 6', set in a mental hospital, is a savage indictment of the medical profession. ‘The Black Monk', the story of an academic who has strange hallucinations, explores ideas of genius and insanity. Both ‘A Woman's Kingdom' and the extended tale ‘Three Years' show women discovering that money, marriage and choices do not bring happiness. In ‘Murder', religious fervour leads to violence, while in The Student', Chekhov's favourite story, a young man recounts a tale from the gospels and undergoes a sudden spiritual epiphany. Here, Chekhov's characters face madness, alienation and frustration before they experience brief, ephemeral moments of insight, often earned at great cost, where they confront the reality of their existence. With an annotated bibliography, chronology and explanatory notes. inventory #32538.
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