- Published: 5 August 2004
- ISBN: 9780140448986
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $26.00
The Shooting Party
New to Penguin Classics, this is Chekhov's only full-length novel
When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called upon to investigate. The mystery deepens and suspicion falls more widely as it emerges that the dead woman was at the centre of a tangled web of relationships: with her elderly husband, with the lecherous count, and with the magistrate himself...
- Published: 5 August 2004
- ISBN: 9780140448986
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $26.00
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About the author
Anton Chekhov was a Russian author and playwright who has been hailed as the master of the modern short story. Born in 1860 in Taganov, he studied at medical school before becoming a writer. Among his best known short tales are 'The Steppe' (which won him the Pushkin Prize in 1888), 'Ward No. 6' (1892) and 'The Lady with the Dog' (1889), while his plays include The Seagull (1895), Uncle Vanya (1897), The Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904), all of which are widely acclaimed as masterpieces. He died in July 1904 in Badenweiler, Germany.