: Anton Chekhov
: The Party and Other Stories
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This collection includes: THE PARTY, TERROR, A WOMAN'S KINGDOM, A PROBLEM, THE KISS, 'ANNA ON THE NECK', THE TEACHER OF LITERATURE, NOT WANTED, TYPHUS, A MISFORTUNE, and A TRIFLE FROM LIFE. According to Wikipedia: 'Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 - 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: 'Medicine is my lawful wife,' he once said, 'and literature is my mistress.' Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov's last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a special challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a 'theatre of mood' and a 'submerged life in the text.' Chekhov had at first written stories only for the money, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.'

THE PARTY AND OTHER STORIES BY ANTON CHEKHOV


published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

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Chekhov story collections:

  • The Bishop and Other Stories
  • The Chorus Girl and Other StoriesThe Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
  • The Darling and Other Stories
  • The Duel and Other Stories
  • The Horse Stealers and Other Stories
  • The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
  • Love and Other Stories
  • The Party and Other Stories
  • The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
  • The Schoolmistress and Other Stories
  • The Wife and Other Stories
  • The Witch and Other Stories
  • The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories

 

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Translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT

 

from: THE TALES OF CHEKHOV VOLUME 4

 

 

 

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THE PARTY

TERROR

A WOMAN'S KINGDOM

A PROBLEM

THE KISS

'ANNA ON THE NECK'

THE TEACHER OF LITERATURE

NOT WANTED

TYPHUS

A MISFORTUNE

A TRIFLE FROM LIFE

 

 

THE PARTY


 

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AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband's name-day was being celebrated, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talking incessantly, the clatter of the crockery, the stupidity of the servants, the long intervals between the courses, and the stays she had put on to conceal her condition from the visitors, wearied her to exhaustion. She longed to get away from the house, to sit in the shade and rest her heart with thoughts of the baby which was to be born to her in another two months. She was used to these thoughts coming to her as she turned to the left out of the big avenue into the narrow path. Here in the thick shade of the plums and cherry-trees the dry branches used to scratch her neck and shoulders; a spider's web would settle on her face, and there would rise up in her mind the image of a little creature of undetermined sex and undefined features, and it began to seem as though it were not the spider's web that tickled her face and neck caressingly, but that little creature. When, at the end of the path, a thin wicker hurdle came into sight, and behind it podgy beehives with tiled roofs; when in the motionless, stagnant air there came a smell of hay and honey, and a soft buzzing of bees was audible, then the little creature would t