{"product_id":"letters-of-anton-chekhov","title":"Letters of Anton Chekhov","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLetters of Anton Chekhov\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAnton Pavlovich Chekhov\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0060122633\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarper \u0026amp; Row\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1973\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e494\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eExcerpt: ...The nights here are foggy, sailing is dangerous, I shall send off this letter at Gorbitsa. ... I am going first class because my companions are in the second. I have got away from them. We have driven together (three in one chaise), we have slept together and are sick of each other, especially I of them. My handwriting is very bad, shaky. That is because the steamer rocks. It's difficult to write. I broke off here. I went to my lieutenants and had tea. They have both had a long sleep and were in a very cordial mood. One of them, Lieutenant N. (the surname jars upon my ear), is in the infantry; he is a tall, well-fed, loud-voiced Courlander, a great braggart and Hlestakov, who sings songs from every opera, but has no more ear than a smoked herring, an unlucky fellow who has squandered all the money for his travelling expenses, knows all Mickiewicz by heart, is ill-bred, far too unreserved, and babbles till it makes you sick. Like me, he is fond of talking about his uncles and aunts. The other lieutenant, M., a geographer, is a quiet, modest, thoroughly well-educated fellow. If it were not for N., I could travel with the other for a million versts without being bored. But with N., who intrudes into every conversation, the other bores me too.... I believe we are reaching Gorbitsa. To-morrow I will make up the form of a telegram which you must send me to Sahalin. I will try to put all I want to know in thirty words, and you must try and keep strictly to the pattern. The gad-flies bite. TO N. A. LEIKIN. GORBITSA, June 20, 1890. Greetings, dear Nikolay Alexandrovitch! I wrote you this as I approached Gorbitsa, one of the Cossack settlements on the banks of the Shilka, a tributary of the Amur. This is where I have got to. I am sailing down the Amur. I sent you a letter from Irkutsk. Did you get it? Since then more than a week has passed, in the course of which I have crossed Lake Baikal and driven through Transbaikalia. Lake Baikal is wonderful, and...\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harper \u0026 Row","offers":[{"title":"Letters of Anton Chekhov | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov | Book | 0060122633 | Used: Good | Back Stacks F 1786679","offer_id":67793519935640,"sku":"1786679","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91g6xytYdjL.jpg?v=1792766684","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/letters-of-anton-chekhov","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}