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Death of a Civil Servant(Oneworld Classics)

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A short collection showing Chekhov in an amusing, playful light, poking fun at his characters, with the moral detachment that also characterizes his major, serious works In "The Death of a Civil Servant," an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embarrassment and hilarious and futile attempts at atonement. The other short stories included in this volume, "A Calculated Marriage," "The Culprit," "The Exclamation Mark," "The Speechmaker," "Who Is to Blame?," and "A Defenceless Creature" are in the same absurdly comical vein.

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (all their books in stock)
Format: Hardback
Published: 2012
Pages: 117
Publisher: Oneworld Classics
ISBN: 9781847492043

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