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    "description": "<p>Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels&ndash;here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.<br /><i><br />The Steppe</i>&mdash;the most lyrical of the five&mdash;is an account of a nine-year-old boy&rsquo;s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. <i>The Duel </i>sets two decadent figures&mdash;a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility&mdash;on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In <i>The Story of an Unknown Man</i>, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. <i>Three Years</i> recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In <i>My Life</i>, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor.<br />The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov&rsquo;s work.<br />(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)<br />&#160;<br /></p>",
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