A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovA Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains' is one of the many accounts of Isabella L. Bird's amazing travels and adventures. At the age of twenty-two in 1854 Isabella left a comfortable life in England for a life of adventurous travel. 'A ...
What makes his work great is that it can be felt and understood...by anybody,' said Leo Tolstoy of Chekhov's plays, which express life through subtle construction, everyday dialogue, and an electrically charged atmosphere.
New Reformatted Edition A compilation of classic short stories by 5 great Russian writers: Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Turgenev. Though not necessarily representative of the authors complete w...
From his teenage years in provincial Russia to his premature death in 1904, Anton Chekhov wrote thousands of letters to a wide range of correspondents. This fascinating new selection tells Chekhov's story as a man and a writer through...
A Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovThe Prank is a major international literary discovery: the young Anton Chekhov's own selection of the best of his early work, here appearing for the first time in any language as the single volume its author intended it to be, and fea...
About Love and Other Stories (Oxford ...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovRaymond Carver called Anton Chekhov 'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived.' This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Che...
About Love: Three Stories by Anton Ch...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAbsolutely wonderful."—Francine ProseWritten in France toward the end of his career, these stories are Anton Chekhov's only attempt at the linked collection. "A Man in a Shell" is a grotesque Gogolian comedy; "Go...
The Notebooks of the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revived in modern productions.
Chekhov's Short Stories to 1880
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovThis volume contains translations of Chekhov's very earliest published short stories. The Chekhov represented here is by no means the confident, near-perfect craftsman who produced some of humanity's best short stories and plays. The ...
If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And wha...
Regarded as the father of the short story as well as the first modern fiction writer, Anton Chekhov rejected conventional forms to examine the lives of ordinary people in prosaic situations. His impressionistic depictions of Russian l...
Lady with the Little Dog and Other St...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovDuring the last ten years of his life, Anton Chekhov penned his great plays, spent time treating the sick, and wrote a small number of stories that are considered his masterpieces. The eleven stories collected here-'The Lady with the ...
Love and Other Stories (World Classic...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov 29 January 1860 - 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.
Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four class...
Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov 29 January 1860 - 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Chekhov was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessi...
Including 'The Duel,' 'Ward No. 6,' 'A Woman's Kingdom,' 'Three Years,' 'My Life,' 'Peasants,' and 'In the Ravine,' as well as a biographical introduction and a chronology.
Includes the title story, Sleepy, Children, The Runaway, Grisha, and twenty other fascinating tales. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories ...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov 29 January 1860 - 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.
The Duel and Other Stories (World Cla...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov 29 January 1860 - 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.
The Essential Tales of Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovOf the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar mast...
The Essential Tales Of Chekhov Deluxe...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFrom one of Russia's greatest writers, Anton Chekhov, an indispensable collection of stories, full of humor, truth, and vast insight, selected and introduced by modern American virtuoso Richard Ford, available in a deluxe paperback ed...
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories ...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov 29 January 1860 - 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.
The Lady with the Dog and other sotri...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovIn The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov showcases his literary brilliance through a captivating collection of short tales. Delve into the world of human emotions, desires, and societal complexities as Chekh...
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stori...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovThe Lady with the Dog is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in 1899. It tells the story of an adulterous affair between a Russian banker and a young lady he meets while vacationing in Yalta.
The Lady with the Toy Dog and Other F...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovThe Lady with the Toy Dog,' 'Goussiev' and other famous tales by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). --- It was the conjunction of his peculiarly independent flexibility of mind with his keen scientific outlook that equipped Anton Pavlovich Ch...
The Party and Other Stories (World Cl...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov 29 January 1860 - 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.
Collection of stories by the Russian short story writer and playwright. Many of his short stories are considered the apotheosis of the form while his playwriting career, though brief, had a great impact on dramatic literature and perf...
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFYODOR LUKITCH SYSOEV, the master of the factory school maintained at the expense of the firm of Kulikin, was getting ready for the annual dinner. Every year after the school examination the board of managers gave a dinner at which th...
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories (W...
Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov 29 January 1860 - 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.