Степь by Anton Chekhov
A young boy is taken across the vast southern plains with a small caravan, and through a series of vividly observed encounters with shepherds, merchants, soldiers and peasants the narrative sketches the changing moods of the landscape and the people who live on it; rich, lyrical descriptions of the steppe mirror the boy’s shifting feelings—wonder, fear, curiosity and a dawning sense of the world’s complexity—while the episodic journey becomes a quiet coming-of-age meditation on memory, place and the passage of time.
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- Published
- 1888
- Nationality
- Russian
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 40-80 pages
- Original Language
- Russian
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- Alternate Titles
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- Steppe
- The Steppe
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