The Duel - The Art of the Novella Author:Anton Chekhov "Hate you!" Laevsky said quietly, breathing heavily. "I've hated you a long time!" — This new translation of the literary masterpiece? which combines a beautiful romance with high suspense? is here presented for the first time as a stand-alone volume. — One of Chekhov?s most important lengthy works, this remarkable story gives a startling twist to... more » his classic, ongoing study of bourgeois romance when he sets it on a collision course with a decaying, Czarist concept of honor. It ends in the ultimate Chekhovian observation: that fate is often ludicrous.
This Is A Melville House ?HybridBook?
HybridBooks are a union of print and electronic media: Purchasers of this print edition also receive Illuminations?additional curated material that expand the world of Kleist?s novella through text and illustrations?at no additional charge.
To obtain the Illuminations for The Duel by Anton Chekhov, simply scan the QR code (or follow a url) found at the back of the print book, which leads to a page where you can download a file for your preferred electronic reading device.
Illuminations for The Duel by Anton Chekhov contain:
Writings by:
Mikhail Lermontov - Ivan Goncharov - Alexander Pushkin - Herbert Spencer - Friedrich Nietzsche - Jack London - Thomas Paine - Francis Bacon - Charles McKay ? And a guide to the game of vint.
Full-color illustrations from:
William Hogarth - James Joseph Tissot - Jan Steen - The Shahnameh and more.
Also included is The Duelist?s Supplement ? ?Against The Duel: Writing In Protest of Dueling?
The Art of The Novella Series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.« less