ANTON [T]CHEKHOV—The Bishop & Other Stories—1st UK HC—Chatto & Windus—1919

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A RARE* First UK Edition in HARDCOVER from 1919 of: • “THE BISHOP AND OTHER STORIES”(Chatto & Windus, 1919) (Hardcover, First UK Edition, First Printing) • BY ANTON [T]CHEKHOV • TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT *RARITY NOTE: At the time of this listing (23 April 2024), there were three copies (edition unspecified) of this Chatto & Windus hardcover for sale online (source: Bookfinder website). • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “What writers influenced me as a young man? CHEKHOV! As a dramatist? CHEKHOV! As a story writer? CHEKHOV!” —TENNESSEE WILLIAMS• “Reading CHEKHOV was just like the angels singing to me.” —EUDORA WELTY • “CHEKHOV’s stories are as wonderful (and necessary) now as when they first appeared. It is not only the immense number of stories he wrote—for few, if any, writers have ever done more—it is the awesome frequency with which he produced masterpieces, stories that shrive us as well as delight and move us, that lay bare our emotions in ways only true art can accomplish.” —RAYMOND CARVER• “I heartily recommend taking as often as possible CHEKHOV’s books and dreaming through them as they are intended to be dreamed through. In an age of ruddy GOLIATHS, it is very useful to read about delicate DAVIDS. Those bleak landscapes, the withered sallows along dismally muddy roads, the gray crows flapping across gray skies, the sudden whiff of some amazing recollection at a most ordinary corner—all this pathetic dimness, all this lovely weakness, all this CHEKHOVIAN dove-gray world is worth treasuring in the glare of those strong, self-sufficient worlds that are promised us by the worshippers of totalitarian states.” —VLADIMIR NABOKOV• “No one puts life onto the page as CHEKHOV does.” —E. L. DOCTOROW• “Reading CHEKHOV, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to me that this was the pleasure and mystery of reading, as well as the answer to those who say that books will disappear.” —FRANCINE PROSE • “The revolution that CHEKHOV set in train—and which reverberates still today—was not to abandon plot, but to make the plot of his stories like the plot of our lives: random, mysterious, run-of-the-mill, abrupt, chaotic, fiercely cruel, meaningless…. CHEKHOV is the father of the modern short story and his influence is still massive and everywhere…. KATHERINE MANSFIELD and JOYCE were among the first to write in the CHEKHOVIAN spirit, but his cool, dispassionate, unflinching attitude to the human condition resounds in writers as diverse as WILLIAM TREVOR and RAYMOND CARVER, ELIZABETH BOWEN, JOHN CHEEVER, MURIEL SPARK and ALICE MUNRO.” —WILLIAM BOYD• “These stories are inconclusive, we say, and proceed to frame a criticism based upon the assumption that stories ought to conclude in a way that we recognise. In so doing we raise the question of our own fitness as readers. Where the tune is familiar and the end emphatic—lovers united, villains discomfited, intrigues exposed—as it is in most Victorian fiction, we can scarcely go wrong, but where the tune is unfamiliar and the end a note of interrogation or merely the information that they went on talking, as it is in CHEKHOV, we need a very daring and alert sense of literature to make us hear the tune, and in particular those last notes which complete the harmony.” —VIRGINIA WOOLF• “CHEKHOV seems to me a writer for adults, his work becoming useful and also beautiful by attracting attention to mature feelings, to complicated human responses and small issues of moral choice within large, overarching dilemmas, any part of which, were we to encounter them in our complex, headlong life with others, might evade even sophisticated notice. CHEKHOV’s wish is to complicate and compromise our view of characters we might mistakenly suppose we could understand with only a glance.” —RICHARD FORD • “[CHEKHOV’s characters] are not lit by the hard light of common day but suffused in a mysterious grayness. They move in this as though they were disembodied spirits. It is their souls that you seem to see.... You have the feeling of a vast, gray, lost throng wandering aimless in some dim underworld.” —SOMERSET MAUGHAM • “No one understood as clearly and finely as ANTON CHEKHOV the tragedy of life’s trivialities, no one before him showed men with such merciless truth the terrible and shameful picture of their life in the dim chaos of bourgeois everyday existence.” —MAXIM GORKY • • For other details about this book, please see below. • SERIES: “TALES OF [T]CHEKHOV: VOL. VII” TITLE: “THE BISHOP AND OTHER STORIES” AUTHOR: ANTON [T]CHEKHOV TRANSLATOR: CONSTANCE GARNETT TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1919 EDITION: First UK Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Title Page, the publication date of “1919”—with no other publication—or later printing—listed on the Copyright Page-or elsewhere. SOURCE I: “CHATTO AND WINDUS. Later printings are noted on the copyright page.” —“MODERN BOOK COLLECTING,” ROBERT A. WILSON (Alfred A. Knopf, Hardcover, First Edition, 1980) SOURCE II: These first-edition statements from the publisher: “CHATTO & WINDUS (ENGLAND): 1928 Statement: ‘We use no particular distinguishing sign to mark our first editions with….’ CHATTO & WINDUS (ENGLAND): 1947 Statement: ‘We have no distinguishing mark, but certainly all contemporary work is easily identified by the fact that all books bear the date of publication either on the title-page or the verso of the title, and in the event of a book being reprinted the information as to whether it is a second impression or a new edition is noted in the biblio.” —“FIRST EDITIONS: A GUIDE TO IDENTIFICATION,” edited by ZEMPEL & VERKLER (The Spoon River Press, Hardcover, Second Printing, June, 1985) NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 314 ISBN: N/A (Not issued with ISBN) CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD. No Dust Jacket. Book is square & firm. Olive cloth boards are lightly but persistently scratched & smudged—with creasing on front. Corners are minutely chipped. Spine is moderately tight with minutely chipped tips. Chip on top of front edge. Text-block edges are age-toned. Date & locale (“Bath 10 • 4 • 1920”) inked onto top of front free endpaper & vintage bookstore sticker at bottom of inside front cover. A few age-spots on front & back endpapers. There may be a stray age-spot in the margin of a few pages—pages are otherwise moderately age-toned but also bright & clean with no writing, no underlining, no stains, no rips, no foxing, no foul odor, etc.SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a protected & sturdy mailer or box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. 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Price: 28.99 USD

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-10-23T19:14:40.000Z

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