Name: The Story of a Nobody (Alma Classics 101 Pages): Anton Chekhov
Author: Anton Chekhov (Author)
ISBN: 9781847498618

The Story of a Nobody (Alma Classics 101 Pages): Anton Chekhov book cover

The Story of a Nobody (Alma Classics 101 Pages): Anton Chekhov

Author(s): Anton Chekhov (Author)

Publisher: Alma Classics
Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2021
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 101 pages
ISBN-10: 1847498612
ISBN-13: 9781847498618

Book Description

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.

If you enjoyed reading The Story of a Nobody, you can try Three Years by Anton Chekhov in Alma Classics 101 Pages series.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The 101 Pages series has been created with the aim of redefining and enriching the classics canon by promoting unjustly neglected works of enduring significance. These texts have been treated with a fresh editorial approach, and are presented in an elegantly designed format.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This story is … a wonderful piece of literature. I know this because I have read it several times, and it is only excellent writing that improves with rereading. –Louis de Bernières

From the Back Cover

A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O- finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during the storming of her town’s citadel. Convinced of her own innocence and wishing to vindicate her own integrity, the Marquise places an advert in the newspapers, appealing for the father to come forward and promising to marry him. But will this be enough to quench her family’s doubts and the derision of the society around her? Will this help her solve the mystery and urge the perpetrator to acknowledge paternity of the child?

One of the great classics of German literature, Heinrich von Kleist’s sexually charged novella is as edgy today as it was when it was first published in 1808, and is accompanied here by two other celebrated stories, ‘The Earthquake in Chile’ and ‘The Foundling’, showcasing the range of their author’s narrative abilities and his taste for the ambiguous and the paradoxical.

About the Author

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) 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.

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