Book description
When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate
of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called upon to investigate. The
mystery deepens and suspicion falls more widely as it emerges that the
dead woman was at the centre of a tangled web of relationships: with her
elderly husband, with the lecherous count, and with the magistrate
himself...
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian physician and writer of short
stories and plays, including the masterpieces: 'Uncle Vanya', 'The
Seagull', and 'The Cherry Orchard'.
Ronald Wilks has translated many Russian works of literature
including, for Penguin, those of Gorky, Sologub, Tolstoy, and Pushkin.
He is the translator of our three volumes of Chekhov's short stories.
John Sutherland teaches English at University College London and at
Caltech. He is the author of several volumes of literary puzzles,
including Was Heathcliffe a Murderer? His Life of Stephen Spender will
be published in May 2004.
