The Duel by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Translated by Constance Garnett (1861-1946).
The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, amid dreams of starting a new life.
The dreams have come to nothing as Laevsky idles away his life drinking and playing cards, and Nadyezhda begins to have other affairs.
Laevsky's scheme to run away again, this time without his mistress, brings him into conflict with the rationalist Von Koren, who believes in Darwinian principles of natural selection and extinction of the weak and useless.
Matters come to a head when an outburst from Laevsky leads to a duel. Von Koren is determined to teach Laevksy a lesson. (Introduction by Phil)
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I'm assuming it's OK for me to read this. I am in the UK, so does the translator's death date of 1946 make any difference? It appears from http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/ac/jr/biblo.htm that the translation was originally published in 1916 - presumably in the UK?
Thought I'd best check before reading any of this.
peegee wrote:I'm assuming it's OK for me to read this. I am in the UK, so does the translator's death date of 1946 make any difference? It appears from http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/ac/jr/biblo.htm that the translation was originally published in 1916 - presumably in the UK?
Thought I'd best check before reading any of this.
regards
Phil
Hi Phil
Well, public domain in the UK is author's (& translator's) death + 70 years. Other than that, the book is certainly ok to record for LibriVox, within US law. Up to you to decide - if you want to go ahead, I'll set this up for you.
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