The Complete Short Novels : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9781400032921 : 140003292X : 30 Aug 2005 : Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels&;here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppe&;the most lyrical of the five&;is an account of a nine-year-old boy&;s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures&;a fanatical rationalist...