The Complete Short Novels

By Anton Chekhov, Larissa Volokhonsky (translator), Richard Pevear (translator)

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Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels-here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

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1 author picked The Complete Short Novels as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Dean-David Schillinger MD

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In these stories, I felt how Chekhov was both an astute clinician as well as an observant and empathic student of the human condition. His story, “Gooseberries,” elicited in me the palpable and infectious sense of unadulterated joy that one can experience when swimming naked in a country pond, including in the rain!

The stories carried me to a different time and place, yet somehow connected me to their characters as if they were present in my life now, alive even.

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