In the Twilight

Paperback

Main Details

Title In the Twilight
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Anton Chekhov
Translated by Hugh Aplin
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 127
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781847493835
ClassificationsDewey:891.733
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Alma Books Ltd
Imprint Alma Classics
Publication Date 15 October 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In the Twilight, the third collection of short stories compiled by Anton Chekhov himself, was his first major success and won him the prestigious Pushkin Prize when it was published in 1887. This volume represents a clear milestone in the writer's passage from the youthful Antosha Chekhonte, author of slight comic sketches, to the mature master of the short-story genre.

Author Biography

Anton Chekhov is one of the giants of modern literature, exerting a strong influence on many present-day novelists and dramatists. As a playwright, he ranks in popularity second only to Shakespeare in the English-speaking world. As a prose writer, he was one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and his anti-heroic realism, full of ambiguity and allusion, provides no easy moral conclusions and results in a new kind of narrative approaching real life in a way no writer had achieved before him.