Hello chris50-ga,
An English translation of ‘The Bet’ written originally in 1889 can be
found at Blackmask Online;
http://www.blackmask.com/page.php?do=page&cat_id=335
translated by Constance Garnett. (some sources mention Garrett)
‘The Bet’ is a short story in Chekov’s “The Schoolmistress and Other
Stories” publication, available to read in these various downloadable
formats, my own preference is for Acrobat.
Ms-Reader
http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=a145
Acrobat
http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=b145
Rocket eBook
http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=c145
Zipped format
http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=d145
iSilo
http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=f145
Mobipocket
http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/links/jump.cgi?ID=g145
‘The Schoolmistress and other Stories’ is viewable online too
http://www.blackmask.com/olbooks/schoolmistressdex.htm
The direct link to ‘The Bet’ is here
http://www.blackmask.com/olbooks/schoolmistress.htm#axviii
It takes a while to download on a standard dialup modem connection as
the page size is around 350k.
The English version of ‘The Bet is also available on the Atomic
Petals.com site (and a few other sites):
http://www.atomicpetals.com/chekov1.htm
and if you felt inclined to buy it as an eBook at eBookMall
http://www.ebookmall.com/ebooks/showdetl.cfm?DID=8&Product_ID=5068
it’s priced at $1.75
or as a physical book under the cover of ‘The Fiance and Other Stories
by Anton Chekhov, you can from Barnes and Noble.com
http://btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=1BMJU7IJB0&btob=Y&isbn=014044470X
priced at $6.95 it includes ‘The Bet’ short story.
“Chekhov's shorter short stories, including On Official Business,
Rothschild's Fiddle, Peasant Women, Three Years, The Bet, and others”
- Background
Here is an article from the kimmysmith.com website analyzing some
aspects of the story (excuse the background image!)
Another article for students which asks some stimulating questions
at masconomet.org
http://masconomet.org/teachers/trevenen/bet.html
According to
http://www.sonic.net/~otrsteve/Catalog_HTML_Sections/Drama.html
‘The Bet’ was made into a 60 minute drama by the British Broadcasting
Corporation.
excerpt
“D-171: BBC THIRTY MINUTE THEATER
1- The Bell Room (Excellent, No Commercials, Thriller)
2- The Bet (Excellent, No Commercials, Drama) * The Bell Room is
adapted from the story by Edgar A. Poe, and The Bet is adapted from
the story by Anton Chekov. Cassette Length: 60 Min.”
According to a post by John Dawla at W.W. Jacobs Discusion Deck
http://killdevilhill.com/z/ychildrend/WWJacobshall/cas/46.html
“The Monkey's Paw was onced published together with a stage version of
THE BET, which is a short story by Anton Chekov. The adaptation was
made by Miles Malleson. The book that included The Monkey's Paw and
The Bet was called Two Short Plays.”
Biography on Anton Pavlovich Chekov (Tchehov) (1860-1904) at
brandeis.edu
http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/chekhovbio.html
which reveals there was also another translation
“The Bet, and Other Stories, translation by S. S. Koteliansky and J.
M. Murry, J. W. Luce, 1915.“
Profile of Anton Chekhov at
http://chekhov2.tripod.com/
and it was Constance Garnett that translated and published 13 volumes
of Chekhov stories in the years 1916-1922. ‘The Bet’ was translated in
1920
Search Strategy:
There appear to be two main usages of his surname in ‘English’,
‘Chekov’ and ‘Checkhov’
"anton chekov" "the bet"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22anton+chekov%22+%22the+bet%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&start=20&sa=N
"Miles Malleson" "the bet"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Miles+Malleson%22+%22the+bet%22
"anton chekhov" "the bet"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22anton+chekhov%22+%22the+bet%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&start=100&sa=N
I hope that helps,
kind regards
lot-ga |
