The KISS And Other Stories: The KISS, Peasants, the Bishop, the Russian Master, Man in a Case, Gooseberries, Concerning Love, a Case History, in the Gully, Anna Round the Neck (Classics) - Softcover

Chekhov, Anton; Wilks, Ronald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140443363 ISBN 13: 9780140443363

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1982

Synopsis

A selection of ten stories written when Chekhov had reached his maturity as a short storywriter, between 1887 and 1902. They show him as a master of compression and a probing analyst, unmasking the mediocrity, lack of ideals, and spiritual and physical inertia of his generation. In these grim pictures of peasant life, and telling portraits of men and women enmeshed in trivialities, in the finely observed, suffocating atmosphere of provincial towns with their pompous officials, frustrated, self-seeking wives, spineless husbands, Chekhov does not expound any system of morality, but leaves the reader to draw what conclusion he will.

About this title

About the Author:

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Chekhov's works available in Penguin Classics are The Steppe and Other Stories, Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, The Shooting Party, Plays and A Life in Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0140443363
• ISBN 13: 9780140443363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224