A01=Anton Chekhov
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Anton Chekhov
automatic-update
B06=Hugh Aplin
Category1=Fiction
Category=FBC
Category=FC
Category=FXP
Category=FYT
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_classics
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€5 to €10
PS=Active
Russian literature
satire
science fiction
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781847498618
- Weight: 147g
- Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Only edition in print
A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official’s son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task – an ailing, world-weary “nobody” – seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to embark on a new path which will lead him to tragedy.
Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, The Story of a Nobody bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov’s genius, and perfectly captures the political and social tensions of its day.
Anton Chekhov 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.
