The Duel (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Anton Chekhov | knygos.lt

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About This Book "Hate you!" Laevsky said quietly, breathing heavily. "I've hated you a long time!"This new translation of the literary masterpiece— which combines a beautiful romance with high suspense— is here presented for the first time as a stand-alone volume.One of Chekhov’s most important lengthy works, this remarkable story gives a startling twist to his classic, ongoing study of bourgeois romance when he sets it on a collision course with a decaying, Czarist concept of honor. It ends in the ultimate Chekhovian that fate is often ludicrous.This Is An Enhanced eBook This eBook contains Illuminations—additional illustrated material that expand the world of Kleist’s novella through text and illustrations—at no additional charge.  "Illuminations" contains writings by Mikhail Lermontov - Ivan Goncharov - Alexander Pushkin - Herbert Spencer - Friedrich Nietzsche - Jack London - Thomas Paine - Francis Bacon - Charles McKay – And a guide to the game of vint.   Full-color illustrations William Hogarth - James Joseph Tissot - Jan Steen - The Shahnameh and more.   Also Included: “Against The Writing In Protest of Dueling”