Sister of the Quints
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Book Overview
They present a wide spectrum of comic and serious themes and a variety of techniques. (His short novels, available in another Norton volume, Seven Short Novels by Chekhov, have been omitted.) Two of the stories have been translated for this edition by Professor Matlaw; the other translations, by Constance Garnett, Ivy Litvinov, and Marian Fell, have been revised in accordance with contemporary usage. Footnotes have been supplied wherever necessary to explain peculiarities of Russian life and the historical era in which Chekhov lived and wrote. "Backgrounds" includes a rich selection of Chekhov's letters, in new translations by Professor Matlaw, and Gorky's celebrated essay on Chekhov, translated by Ivy Litvinov. The critical essays offer general views of Chekhov's art and achievement and detailed analyses of particular stories. The critics are D. S. Mirsky, A. B. Derman (whose essay has been translated from the Russian especially for this edition), Renato Poggioli, Gleb Struve, Donald Rayfield, Karl Kramer, Virginia Llewellyn Smith, and Nils ?ke Nilsson. A Selected Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0899194982
ISBN13:9780899194981
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:Clarion Books
Length:177 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
Age Range:12 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 7 and higher
Customer Reviews
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A different sort of YA story...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
When Natalie Wentworth's stepmother became pregnant, no one imagined there might be FIVE babies! Yet now, a year later, the household is chaos as the quintuplets become more active, tearing around the house, scaring away babysitters and causing the family financial worries. It's hard enough being thirteen, but Natalie's getting sick of being a constant second place to her father's *new* children. She sees a clear solution -- moving to Colorado to live with her mother. After all, Natalie's mother has always wanted her, and it'd be wonderful, just the two of them in a peaceful apartment. Yet despite her daily irritation, Natalie knows she loves her brothers and sisters, as well as the life she's built with her father and stepmother. How can she just leave the quints? Not only that, but there's her friends at school, as well as a new crush, Noel... Pevsner does an excellent job, interspersing typical adolescent interests and worries with the unique situation of being "sister of the quints."
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