by Anton Chekhov · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140444520
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«The Party and Other Stories» is Anton Chekhov's collection of short stories, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
The five stories depict nineteenth-century Russia: a pregnant woman suppressing her agitation during a party, a shy young man visiting Moscow's brothels, and provincial lives without horizons. Chekhov's prose combines irony with an almost pictorial attention to detail.
Translation and introduction by Ronald Wilks. Fourth volume in the Tales of Chekhov series. Published in 1985.
Intended for readers of classic fiction, short stories, and nineteenth-century Russian literature.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer. Widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time, his career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
