Anton Chekhov
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing In Anton Chekhov?s The Duel the escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast. Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run off with another man?s wife, the beautiful but vapid Nadya, and now finds himself tiring of her. The scientist von Koren is contemptuous...