The Story of a Nobody (Alma Classics) - Tapa blanda

'This story is - a wonderful piece of literature. I know this because I have read it several times, and it is only excellent writing that improves with rereading.' Louis de Bernieres 'Revived in this sure-footed translation by Hugh Aplin, Chekhov's novella deserves to be much better known.' The Independent

A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task - an ailing, world-weary "nobody" - seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own impending death, gradually becomes disillusioned with his mission, and decides to embark on a new path which will lead him to tragedy.