{"product_id":"9781632958655","title":"The Steppe","description":"Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. The Steppe : in 1887, exhausted from overwork and ill health, Chekhov took a trip to Ukraine, which reawakened him to the beauty of the steppe. On his return, he began the novella-length short story, which he called \"something rather odd and much too original,\" and which was eventually published in Severny Vestnik (The Northern Herald). In a narrative that drifts with the thought processes of the characters, Chekhov evokes a chaise journey across the steppe through the eyes of a young boy sent to live away from home, and his companions, a priest and a merchant. The Steppe has been called a \"dictionary of Chekhov's poetics\", and it represented a significant advance for Chekhov, exhibiting much of the quality of his mature fiction and winning him publication in a literary journal rather than a newspaper.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Heraklion Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164309995760,"sku":"9781632958655","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632958655_p0.jpg?v=1763676107","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632958655","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}