The Shooting Party
Author: Chekhov, Anton
ISBN: 9780140448986
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 05 Aug 2004
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
New to Penguin Classics, this is Chekhov's only full-length novel
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...
ISBN: 9780140448986
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 05 Aug 2004
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
New to Penguin Classics, this is Chekhov's only full-length novel
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...
