Big Volodya and Little Volodya
May 2015 · Vintage
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
Sophia Lvovna loves Little Volodya, but she is married to Big Volodya. A classic Chekhov story of love, anguish, and revelation.
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story, and “Big Volodya and Little Volodya” demonstrates his subtle and profound comic mastery. A selection from Forty Stories, spanning Chekhov’s entire career, in Robert Payne’s lively translation.
An eBook short.
Sophia Lvovna loves Little Volodya, but she is married to Big Volodya. A classic Chekhov story of love, anguish, and revelation.
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as the father of the modern short story, and “Big Volodya and Little Volodya” demonstrates his subtle and profound comic mastery. A selection from Forty Stories, spanning Chekhov’s entire career, in Robert Payne’s lively translation.
An eBook short.
About the author
ANTON CHEKHOV was born on January 17, 1860, in the small seaport town of Taganrog in the south of Russia, the grandson of a serf. In debt, his family fled Taganrog, leaving behind the sixteen-year-old Chekhov, who was forced to serve as a tutor to their creditor’s son. By the time he was nineteen, Chekhov had entered medical school and had begun writing stories for magazines. In spite of a lifelong battle with tuberculosis, Chekhov assumed complete responsibility for his parents and siblings, and was consequently always in financial straits, pooling his resources as a doctor and writer to support them. An inveterate nomad, he traveled throughout Russia, Germany, Italy, France, and parts of the Far East, seeking relief for his poor health and inspiration for his work. Acknowledged as possibly the greatest Russian playwright, his stories are also those of a master. As Sir V. S. Pritchett remarked, “[Chekhov’s] genius, in my opinion, lies above all in his creative gifts as a writer of short stories.” He died on July 2, 1904, in Germany.
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