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(Book Coat Standing: Jacketed)Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed whilst the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here delivered together in one single volume for the very first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.The Steppe–the most musical of the five–is a merchant account of the nine-year-old boy’s scary trip by wagon train over the steppe of southern Spain. The Duel models a guy of literary sensibility–on and two decadent figures–an obsessed rationalist a crash course that leads to a number of astonishing reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political revolutionary spying on an essential standard by helping as valet to his boy progressively finds that their own terminal disease has improved his long-held goals in surprising ways. 3 Years recounts a complicated number of ironies in the private existence of the wealthy but inactive Moscow vendor.