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Robert Louis Jackson
This long-awaited and much-anticipated volume comprises a carefully collated collection of Robert Louis Jackson'sessayson Chekhov.
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Maxim Gorky,Olga Knipper-Chekhova
This is a centennial edition containing some of the best pages from memoirs and essays on Chekhov. Included in the volume are a well-known literary portrait by Maxim Gorky, reminiscences…
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A. P. Chekhov
Contains a collection of stories by Anton Chekhov. It includes: A Day in the Country ; Old Age ; Kashtanka ; Enemies ; On the Way ; Vanka ; La…
Anton P Chekhov
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A Literary Classic by ANTON CHEKHOV.
The Darling and Other Stories by RUSSIAN author ANTON CHEKHOV is a collection of short stories…
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by RUSSIAN author ANTON CHEKHOV is a collection of short stories…
Published in 1929, this book was written by a noted Russian writer whose stories, though often based on tragic themes, are penetrated by the light and subtle satire that has…
The garden of Ivanoff’s country place. On the left is a terrace and the facade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broad semicircular lawn…
Insolence, cynicism … it’s unclean! If you’ve such a longing for insolence and cynicism, you might have picked a sow out of the mire and have devoured her alive. It…
The Chorus Girl, Verotchka, My Life, At a Country House, A Father, On the Road, Rothschild’s Fiddle, Ivan Matveyitch, Zinotchka, Bad Weather, A Gentleman, Friend A Trivial Incident.
The Cook’s Wedding, Sleepy, Children, The Runaway, Grisha, Oysters, Home A Classical Student, Vanka, An Incident, A Day in the Country, Boys, Shrove Tuesday, The Old House In Passion Week…
The Darling, Ariadne, Polinka, Anyuta, The Two Volodyas, The Trousseau, The Helpmate, Talent, An Artist’s Story, Three Years.
The Duel, Excellent People, Mire, Neighbours, At Home, Expensive Lessons, The Princess, The Chemist’s Wife.
Hunching up his shoulders and stretching his fingers wide apart, Korostelev played some chords and began singing in a tenor voice, Show me the abode where the Russian peasant would…
The Horse-Stealers, Ward No. 6, The Petchenyeg, A Dead Body, A Happy Ending, The Looking-Glass, Old Age, Darkness, The Beggar, A Story Without a Title, In Trouble, Frost, A Slander…
The Party, Terror, A Woman’s Kingdom, A Problem, The Kiss, Anna on the Neck, The Teacher of Literature, Not Wanted, Typhus, A Misfortune, A Trifle from Life.
Included in this volume are: Enemies, The Schoolmaster, The Examining Magistrate, Betrothed, From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man, In the Dark, A Play, A Mystery, Strong Impressions, Drunk, The…
This one includes The Bet.
TREPLIEFF. [Looking at the stage] Just like a real theatre! See, there we have the curtain, the foreground, the background, and all. No artificial scenery is needed. The eye travels…
CONTENTS The Wife Difficult People The Grasshopper A Dreary Story The Privy Councillor The Man in a Case Gooseberries About Love The Lottery Ticket
A translation of the play by the Russian writer who also wrote The Cherry Orchard , The Seagull and The Three Sisters . The translator wrote her version in collaboration…
One snowy evening, Kashtanka, a young chestnut-colored dog, loses sight of her master, the cabinetmaker Luka Alexandrych. How Kashtanka ends up in the circus, learning all sorts of tricks–and how…
CHEBUTYKIN. My dear girls, my darlings, you are all that I have, you are the most precious treasures I have on earth. I shall soon be sixty, I am an…
We all behaved as though we were frantic. I read, while the old maids and other females sang, and then after standing on their legs for twenty-four hours or longer…
In ancient times a happy man grew at last frightened of his happiness – it was so great! – and to propitiate the gods he brought as a sacrifice his…
BORTSOV. You don’t understand me… . Understand me, you fool, if there’s a drop of brain in your peasant’s wooden head, that it isn’t I who am asking you, but…
THIS 118 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Stories of Anton Chekhov, by Anton Chekhov. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 141915298X.
Of the eighteen hundred and ninety letters published by Chekhov’s family I have chosen for translation these letters and passages from letters which best to illustrate Chekhov’s life, character and…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
THIS 18 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Plays By Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya; Ivanoff; The Sea Gull; The Swan Song, by Anton Chekhov. To purchase the entire book…
M P Chehova
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Features stories focusing on the development and existence of the male, the trials and tribulations of adolescence, maturity, and old age. This book takes complicated emotional experiences and presents them…
