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The Complete Short Novels / (Record no. 634195)
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| fixed length control field | 01810nam a2200325 i 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 261015s2007 xxu 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781857152777 |
| ISBN | 1857152778 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 891.733 |
| Item number | CHE |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Чехов, Антон Павлович |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Complete Short Novels / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Антон Павлович Чехов |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 554 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Aanton 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.The Steppe–the most lyrical of the five–is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures–a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility–on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life o |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | novellas |
| Topical Term | Translations |
| Topical Term | Short stories |
| Topical Term | fiction classics |
| Topical Term | literary fiction |
| Topical Term | novella |
| Topical Term | Man-woman relationships |
| Topical Term | Fiction |
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| -- | New York : |
| -- | Alfred A. Knopf, |
| -- | 2007 |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 15.10.2026 | 891.733 CHE | 336895 | 15.10.2026 | Books |