The Story of a Nobody (100 Pages) - Softcover

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

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9781843910039: The Story of a Nobody (100 Pages)

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ISBN 10: 1843910039 ISBN 13: 9781843910039

Publisher: Hesperus Pr, 2002

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Chekhov’s little-known literary gem is a profound and moving work, combining the political tensions of the day with a tale of deep poignancy and sorrow. With St. Petersburg awash with extravagant, dissolute bureaucrats concerned only with increasing their vast riches, a secret movement infiltrates one of its members into one such household. Once there, the man sees for himself the profligacy that he has sworn to oppose yet he also sees purposelessness throughout life. Determining to follow his own values, he embarks upon a new path, little knowing that this too will lead him to tragedy a tragedy he will find impossible to bear.

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I do not know whether it was under the influence of the illness or of a change that was already under way, as yet unnoticed, in my outlook, but I was increasingly possessed from day to day by a passionate, nagging desire for the ordinary life of an ordinary person.

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