Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984.
First published in 1973, this collection of Chekhov's correspondence is widely regarded as the best introduction to this great Russian writer.
Dear Actress: The Love Letters of Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov, sel., trans., and ed. Jean Benedetti (London: Methuen Drama, 1998), p. 284. 5. Anton Chekhov to K. S. Filippov, February 2, 1890, in Anton Chekhov, A fourney to Sakhalin ...
Nikita Mikhalkov said that before this book came out we didn't know Chekhov. . . The author doesn't invent, add or embellish anything . . . Rayfield is motivated by the Westerner's urge not ot hold information back, however grim it may be.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Fifty-two stories spanning Chekhov's career.
Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov's creative career.
In addition, this volume includes a selection of letters, candidly revealing of Chekhov’s impassioned convictions on life and art, his high aspirations, his marriage, and his omnipresent compassion.