{"product_id":"peasants-and-other-stories-isbn-9780940322141","title":"Peasants and Other Stories","description":"The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's 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 Chekhov's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003eA Woman's Kingdom\u003cbr\u003eThree Years\u003cbr\u003eThe Murder\u003cbr\u003eMy Life\u003cbr\u003ePeasants\u003cbr\u003eThe New Villa\u003cbr\u003eIn the Ravine\u003cbr\u003eThe Bishop\u003cbr\u003eBetrothedNo one understood as clearly and finely as Anton Chekhov the tragedy of life’s trivialities, no one before him showed men with such merciless truth the terrible and shameful picture of their life in the dim chaos of bourgeois everyday existence.\u003cbr\u003e— Maxim Gorky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is Chekhov with his eye on the big social picture….Longer than his earlier stories, these late works have more in common with \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Gull\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cherry Orchard\u003c\/i\u003e than with, say,The Doctor; depending on your taste, these stories may be most filling from a social observer’s point of view….Subtlety isn’t exactly the driving aim here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e— Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003eAnton Chekhov (1860-1904) the son of a grocer and serf, worked as a physician and ran an open clinic for the poor, while also writing the plays and short stories that have established him as one of the greatest figures in Russian literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, helped edit \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, served as chief book critic for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and was a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, including\u003ci\u003eAxel’s Castle, Patriotic Gore,\u003c\/i\u003e and a work of fiction, \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Hecate County\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300305981669,"sku":"NP9780940322141","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780940322141.jpg?v=1767734593","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/peasants-and-other-stories-isbn-9780940322141","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}