
The Story of a Nobody
Anton Chekhov(Author)
Alma Classics (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-84749-278-4 (ISBN)
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Description
A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task - an ailing, world-weary "nobody" - seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to embark on a new path which will lead him to tragedy.
Reviews / Votes
'This story is - a wonderful piece of literature. I know this because I have read it several times, and it is only excellent writing that improves with rereading.' Louis de Bernieres 'Revived in this sure-footed translation by Hugh Aplin, Chekhov's novella deserves to be much better known.' The IndependentMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Richmond
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Alma Books Ltd
Illustrations
black & white illustrations, maps
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84749-278-4 (9781847492784)
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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.