Description
Very Good+ dust jacket, illustration of a dog with white and red lettering, White and red lettering on the spine, minor edge rub. The Near Fine binding is purple paper over boards, a color illustration of a dog on front cover, white lettering on spine, minor rub ate corner tips, writing on the Front free Endpaper dated 1993. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Lovely full page color illustrations by Barry Moser can be found throughout the book and the dust jacket.
About the book: (from the book, dust jacket)
A young, rusty-red dog, half dachsund and half mutt, with the sharp ears ad nose of a fox, was running up and down the sidewalk, looking anxiously in all directions.
On this chilly winter evening, Kashtanka becomes separated from her master as darkness and snow begin to fall. She curls up in a doorway, lost and lonely, until a mysterious stranger opens his door and dis- covers the little dog. Then life takes an unpredicted turn and Kashtanka becomes part of a new home, where she joins a babbling goose named Ivan and a sullen cat named Fyodor in rehearsals for performance in a small circus troupe.
Anton Chekhov’s Kashtanka (“Little Chestnut”) is a story well known to Russian children. In it he sees, through the eyes of the little dog, the human world in all its bewildering complexity. A story about life and its ironies, this is also a story of friendship and camaraderie, loyalty and trust.
No other illustrator could bring Chekhov’s story to life with such warmth and vitality as Barry Moser. His striking portraits of each character and his breathtaking snow scenes are startlingly beautiful. Readers who have never before read Chekhov, as well as those who have long admired his work, ill be enchanted.
About the author: (from the book, dust jacket)
ANTON CHEKHOV was born in the Russian seaport village of Taganrog in 1860. Often referred to as the father of the modern short story, Chekhov began writing and selling his stories at an early age to help support his medical studies. Between 1899 and 1901 alone, ten volumes of his collected stories and plays were published. Chekhov wrote until his death in 1904.
About the illustrator: (from the book, dust jacket)
BARRY MOSER has illustrated more than 120 books for adults and children, with exquisite black-and-white wood engravings as well as luminous watercolors. His books have earned such honors as the American Book Award and the AIGA Design Award, and have been named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. An avid mountain biker and a writer, Mr. Moser lives and works in western Massachusetts.
About the translator: (from the book, dust jacket)
RICHARD PEVEAR, a poet and translator, has received grants and fellowships from distinguished sources, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. With his wife, Larissa Volokhonsky, he has translated works by prominent Russian authors, including Dostoevsky. They live in Paris.
