Chekhov
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Chekhov: The Major Plays
By Anton Chekhov, Jean-Claude Van ItallieChekhov depicts specific characters trapped in a specific circumstance. But we all experience an equivalent “trap.” We're here on a temporary visa. Sickness, old age and death lie in wait. Our choices are in how we behave along the way.
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Chekhov: The Hidden Ground
By Philip CallowWhen his mother was at the butcher's ordering extra meat she had said they had Leykin staying with them. “Is that the one who writes books?” asked the butcher, and gave her some excellent meat. “So the butcher doesn't know I too write ...
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Chekhov: A Biographical and Critical Study
By Ronald HingleyFragments was a particularly suitable magazine in which to publish this sort of material, since the Petersburg censorship was laxer than the Muscovite, and Leykin used to sail as near the wind as he conveniently could.
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Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard
By James N. LoehlinVakhtangov's remarks suggest a new approach to Chekhov, but one that wouldn't be applied to The Cherry Orchard for several years. When the new generation of directors turned to Chekhov, they concentrated on his farces and vaudevilles, ...
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Chekhov: The Four Major Plays
By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov"In these new translations of Chekhov's four greatest plays - Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and Cherry Orchard - the theatrical translator Curt Columbus recaptures the master's open-ended simplicity, at...
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Chekhov: Four Plays
By Anton Pavlovich ChekhovCollection of four plays by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov translated from the Russian. Includes a chronology of the plays he wrote, chronology of his life, glossary, and pronunciation guide.
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Chekhov: Selected Short Stories
By Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov has long been regarded as the master of the Russian short story and one of the leading exponents of the genre in world literature. This volume comprises the...
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Chekhov: Stories for Our Time
By Anton ChekhovAs the celebrated Russian-immigrant author Boris Fishman writes in his delightfully counterintuitive introduction to this Restless Classics collection, Chekhov is funny, ceaselessly curious, and undogmatic—a significant break from the ...
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Chekhov: The Major Plays
By Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFive of Chekov's well-known plays express ways humans cope when trapped in their environment, revealing their weaknesses in the face of others' greed, and show how single affirmations remain in the midst of despair.
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Chekhov: Four Plays
By Anton ChekhovChekhov: Four Plays
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Chekhov: Scenes from a Life
By Rosamund BartlettWhat made Chekhov tick? What served as a source of creative inspiration in his life? In answering these questions, Russian scholar Rosamund Bartlett focuses on the writer's intimate relationship with...
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Chekhov: The Major Plays
I'm crazy—but he, of course, is not crazy to hide mediocrity and meanness under the mask of scholarship and academic rank. And she's not crazy to marry an old man, and then to deceive him in front of everyone. I saw you kiss her.
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Chekhov: The Major Plays
By Anton Pavlovich ChekhovThis edition includes "The Seagull," "Uncle Vanya," "Three Sisters," and "The Cherry Orchard."
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Chekhov: The Early Plays
By Anton Pavlovich ChekhovDiscover the early works of the youthful Dr. Chekhov, whose passion for his two warring muses, comedy and tragedy, is nowhere more evident than in his first three-full length plays,...
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Chekhov: The Major Plays
By Anton Pavlovich ChekhovPresents five of Chekhov's dramatic works.
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Chekhov: The Three Major Plays
By Anton ChekhovAii three of Chekhov's dramatic masterpieces - 'The Three Sisters', 'Uncle Vanya' and 'The Cherry Orchard' - in one handy volume.