Subtly worded and other stories / Teffi ; translated from the Russian by Anne Marie Jackson with Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Clare Kitson, Irina Steinberg and Natalia Wase.
A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov, Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely...
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| Other title: | Short stories. Selections. English |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Subtly worded and other stories / |c Teffi ; translated from the Russian by Anne Marie Jackson with Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Clare Kitson, Irina Steinberg and Natalia Wase. |
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| 500 | |a "The stories in this volume are selected from Teffi's entire body of work, 1910-1952"--Title page verso. | ||
| 500 | |a Translated from the Russian. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Part I. Before the Revolution -- |t A radiant Easter -- |t The Corsican -- |t Will-power -- |t The hat -- |t The lifeless beast -- |t Jealousy -- |t Duty and honour -- |g Part II. 1916-19 : Rasputin, Revolution and Civil War -- |t Petrograd monologue -- |t One day in the future -- |t One of us -- |t Rasputin -- |g Part III. 1920s and 1930s in Paris -- |t Que faire? -- |t Subtly worded -- |t Marquita -- |t My first Tolstoy -- |t Heart of a Valkyrie -- |t Ernest with the languages -- |g Part IV. 1930s : Magic tales -- |t The kind that walk -- |t The dog (a story from a stranger) -- |g Part V. Last stories -- |t The blind one -- |t Thy will -- |t And time was no more. |
| 520 | |a A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov, Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny - a wry, scathing observer of society - she is also capable, as capable even as Chekhov, of miraculous subtlety and depth of character. There are stories here from her own life (as a child, going to meet Tolstoy to plead for the life of War and Peace's Prince Bolkonsky, o. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Tėffi, N. A. |q (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna), |d 1872-1952 |v Translations into English. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Short stories, Russian. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85121931. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Humorous stories, Russian. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005936. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Translations. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01423791. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Jackson, Anne Marie, |e translator. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012153210 |1 http://isni.org/isni/0000000399292500. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Kitson, Clare, |e translator. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005110723 |1 http://isni.org/isni/0000000044915481. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Chandler, Robert, |d 1953- |e translator. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79122830 |1 http://isni.org/isni/0000000122117486. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Chandler, Elizabeth, |d 1947- |e translator. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009045690 |1 http://isni.org/isni/0000000374718261. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Steinberg, Irina, |e translator. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2015003037 |1 http://isni.org/isni/0000000446273290. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Wase, Natalia, |e translator. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2015003050 |1 http://isni.org/isni/0000000446273653. | |
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