Anton Chekhov

The Shooting Party (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Wilks, Ronald / Übersetzer: Wilks, Ronald

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called upon to investigate. The mystery deepens and suspicion falls more widely as it emerges that the dead woman was at the centre of a tangled web of relationships: with her elderly husband, with the lecherous count, and with the magistrate himself...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141906812
• Artikelnr.: 38136718

Autorenporträt

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian physician and writer of short stories and plays, including the masterpieces: 'Uncle Vanya', 'The Seagull', and 'The Cherry Orchard'. Ronald Wilks has translated many Russian works of literature including, for Penguin, those of Gorky, Sologub, Tolstoy, and Pushkin. He is the translator of our three volumes of Chekhov's short stories. John Sutherland teaches English at University College London and at Caltech. He is the author of several volumes of literary puzzles, including Was Heathcliffe a Murderer? His Life of Stephen Spender will be published in May 2004.