Book Description
Includes notes and criticism
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Everyman's Classic Library in Paperback
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN : 9780460874724
Includes notes and criticism
Author : Anton Chekov
Publisher : Serapis Classics
Page : 2052 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2017-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3962556443
The Serapis Classics edition of "The Anton Chekov Omnibus" contains over 150 stories penned by the Russian master! A few months before he died, Chekhov told the writer Ivan Bunin that he thought people might go on reading his writings for seven years. "Why seven?" asked Bunin. "Well, seven and a half," Chekhov replied. "That's not bad. I've got six years to live."
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609803175
The Undiscovered Chekhov gives us, in rich abundance, a new Chekhov. Peter Constantine's historic collection presents 38 new stories and with them a fresh interpretation of the Russian master. In contrast to the brooding representative of a dying century we have seen over and over, here is Chekhov's work from the 1880s, when Chekhov was in his twenties and his writing was sharp, witty and innovative. Many of the stories in The Undiscovered Chekhov reveal Chekhov as a keen modernist. Emphasizing impressions and the juxtaposition of incongruent elements, instead of the straight narrative his readers were used to, these stories upturned many of the assumptions of storytelling of the period. Here is "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town," written as a series of telegrams, beginning with "Have been drinking to Sarah's health all week! Enchanting! She actually dies standing up!..." In "Confession...," a thirty-nine year old bachelor recounts some of the fifteen times chance foiled his marriage plans. In "How I Came to be Lawfully Wed," a couple reminisces about the day they vowed to resist their parents' plans that they should marry. And in the more familiarly Chekhovian "Autumn," an alcoholic landowner fallen low and a peasant from his village meet far from home in a sad and haunting reunion in which the action of the story is far less important than the powerful impression it leaves with the reader that each man must live his life and has his reasons.
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"The Witch and Other Stories" belongs to the famous collections of works by Chekhov, the prominent Russian writer. He is a master of creating complex characters, often torn between sins and virtues, trying to find their place in this world.
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781853262883
A collection of twenty-four short stories and comic sketches by Anton Chekhov
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 150406108X
A classic collection of tales by the acclaimed Russian playwright and author universally recognized as a master of the modern short story. In “The Bet,” partygoers strike up a debate regarding the humanity of capital punishment versus life imprisonment, which causes a two-million-ruble wager to be struck between a lawyer and a banker. The lawyer, arguing in favor of life imprisonment, agrees to spend fifteen years in total isolation in a guest room on the banker’s property. Granted only basic necessities, he staves off loneliness and depression by reading, studying, playing piano, and drinking wine. Meanwhile, the banker experiences the follies of fortune, leading him to a desperate and dastardly decision . . . Other stories in this volume include “A Tedious Story,” “The Fit,” “Misfortune,” “After the Theatre,” “That Wretched Boy,” “Enemies,” “A Trifling Occurrence,” “A Gentleman Friend,” “Overwhelming Sensations,” “Expensive Lessons,” “A Living Calendar,” and “Old Age.”
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465590560
Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 1999-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146171303X
By 1888, when he was just twenty-eight, Chekhov had published a staggering 528 stories, about half of them comic. Unpretentious, lively, and inventive, these comic stories have long been affectionately regarded in Russia, but publishers in the West, overawed by the prevailing image of Chekhov as a melancholy genius, have resisted the down-to-earth humorist. This collection is the first substantial volume in English devoted solely to the comic stories. The forty stories here reveal the full range of Chekhov’s comic mastery: simple sketches, almost like verbal cartoons; outrageous parodies and stories with a comic twist; satirical and subversive pieces that foreshadow the anti-authoritarian attitudes of his later work; and excursions into the absurd that hint of his later stage dialogue. In these early comic stories Chekhov found himself as an artist. Readers unfamiliar with them may miss the countless touches of humor in the later and more famous plays and stories. Tolstoy, who disliked Chekhov’s plays, was reduced to helpless fits of laughter by his comic stories. They have a sense of fun and infectious good humor.
Author : Jean-Claude Van Itallie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1476843139
Despite the abundant variety of Chekhov translations available in bookstores and libraries, American directors and actors have sought out these versions by Jean-Claude van Itallie to make them the most often performed renditions on the American stage today. This edition includes “The Seagull ” “Uncle Vanya ” “Three Sisters ” and “The Cherry Orchard.”
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 5998 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8577770699
This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald, - Edith Wharton, - Stephen Crane, - Susan Glaspell, - Kate Chopin, - Laura E. Richards, - Alice Dunbar-Nelson, - Louisa May Alcott, - Hans Christian Andersen, - Charles Dickens, - Nathaniel Hawthorne, - Henry James, - Mark Twain, - Charlotte Perkins, - Elizabeth Gaskell, - Herman Melville, - James Joyce, - Leo Tolstoy, - Nikolai Gogol, - Anton Chekhov, - Fyodor Dostoevsky, - Maxim Gorky, - Leonid Andreyev, - Ivan Turgenev, - Joseph Conrad, - Aleksander Pushkin, - Robert Louis Stevenson, - Robert E. Howard, - G. K. Chesterton, - Edgar Wallace, - Arthur Machen, - Ambrose Bierce, - Talbot Mundy, - Abraham Merritt, - Zane Grey, - Edgar Rice Burroughs, - Oscar Wilde, - Rudyard Kipling, - E.T.A. Hoffman, - Bram Stoker, - H.G. Wells, - Franz Kafta - Washington Irving.