![]() ![]() Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was born in Taganrog, a port on the sea of Azov. This edition also includes an introduction by John Sutherland, suggestions for further reading and explanatory notes. It brilliantly captures the immediacy of the dialogue that Chekhov was later to develop into his great dramas. Ronald Wilks's brilliant new translation of this work is the first in over seventy years. One of Chekhov's earliest experiments in fiction combines the classic elements of a gripping mysterywith a short story of corruption, concealed love and fatal jealousy. When an attempt is made on Olga's life in the woods, it seems impossible to discover the perpetrator in an impenetrable web of lust, deceit, loathing and double-dealing. Adored by Urbenin, the estate manager, whom she marries to escape the poverty of her home, she is also desired by the dissolute Count Karneyev and by Zinovyev, a magistrate, who knows the secret misery of her marriage. The Shooting Party centres on Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on a country estate, and her fateful relationships with the men in her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel, this Penguin Classics edition of The Shooting Party is translated and edited by Ronald Wilks, with an introduction by John Sutherland. ![]()
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