Contributions

  • Ronald Hingley (Translator) - Contributor

Publication

1998 - Oxford University Press, Oxford

Language

English

Word Count

63,250 words, Guess

Page Count

253 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • Better World BooksKO-718-044
  • Better World Books9780192836984
  • Better World BooksKN-777-262
  • Open LibraryOL7384235M

Classifications

  • DDC891.73'3
  • LCCPG3456.A15 H56 1998

Description

Short story collection containing: [Степь](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL55442W) An awkward business The beauties The cobbler and the Devil The bet Thieves Gusev Peasant women In exile Rothschild's fiddle The student The head gardener's story Patch The savage In the cart New villa On official business At Christmas Fragment The story of a commercial venture From a retired teacher's notebook A fishy affair

First Sentence

ON an early July morning a dilapidated springless carriage-one of those antediluvian britzkas now used in Russia only by merchants' clerks, cattle-dealers and poor priests-drove out of N., a sizeable town in Z. County, and thundered along the post road.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Steppe: and Other StoriesPaperbackOxford University Press1998-01-01

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