{"product_id":"9781847499172","title":"The willow and other stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eOld Arkhip sits every day by the roots of a wizened, hunchbacked willow, fishing and exchanging whispered stories with the ancient tree. One of these takes Arkhip three decades back in time, to a quiet day in early spring when a strange encounter shook him momentarily from the rural bliss in which he lived, catapulting him into a world of crime, corruption, violence and murder. A quintessential example of Chekhov's artistry, 'The Willow' is here accompanied by thirty-two other short stories - some of them never or rarely translated into English - which are representative of the three main phases of the author's career: the short, light-hearted pieces of the late 1880s, the darker, more pessimistic tales of his maturity and the psychologically nuanced stories he wrote towards the end of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alma Classics","offers":[{"title":"Chekhov, Anton \/ Pavlovich","offer_id":48561164157242,"sku":"9781847499172","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781847499172.jpg?v=1715691090","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/9781847499172","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}