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Sakhalin Island
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Ideal for readers interested in Russian history, penal servitude, and Chekhov's literary breadth. Scholars and enthusiasts of arts and culture will find this work an invaluable insight into 19th-century Siberia and the Tsarist regime.
Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov’s motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the exposé
Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov’s motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the exposé
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In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates.
Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov’s motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the exposé, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov’s career and on Russian society.
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Praised as a masterpiece of restrained, dignified, and unsentimental prose, Sakhalin Island is recognised for its seriousness and clear, humane suggestions for reform. Critics highlight Chekhov's mastery of documentary and academic prose, presenting this work as an impressive complement to his celebrated dramas and fiction.
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ISBN: 9781847497864
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 January 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Alma Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Brian Reeve
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 44.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 512
About the Author
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) 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.
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