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21. Chekhov for the Stage: The Seagull/Uncle
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22. Tatyana Repina : Two Translated
 
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23. Notebook of Anton Chekhov
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24. The Selected Short Stories of
 
25. Steppe and Other Stories (Short
 
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26. Love and Other Stories (The Tales
 
27. The Oxford Chekhov: Volume 5:
 
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28. The Duel and Other Stories: The
 
29. The Oxford Chekhov: Volume 2:
 
30. Longer Stories from the Last Decade
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31. Chekhov: "The Vaudevilles" and
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32. The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-Three
 
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33. The Darling and Other Stories:
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34. The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and
 
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35. Chekhov's Early Plays
 
36. The Oxford Chekhov: Volume 7:
 
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37. Monologues from Chekhov
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38. The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov
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39. If Only We Could Know!: An Interpretation
40. Treasury of Classic Russian Love

21. Chekhov for the Stage: The Seagull/Uncle Vanya/the Three Sisters/the Cherry Orchard/4 Plays in 1 Volume
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 Hardcover: 225 Pages (1992-05)
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Asin: 0810110237
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars Chekov was a master playwright.
I read an edition that had only two of these plays, so my review is based on two plays only - "The Cherry Orchard" and "The Three Sisters".Chekov's trademark is to write about strong and determined women.This is quite a stretch since the plays were written in the very early twentieth century.These plays are superbly crafted, and the drama unfolds like a flower in slow motion photography.His characters in both are also wonderful.It would be a real treat to see even one of these masterpieces performed on the stage.I recommend this author highly to anyone interested in adding plays to their reading repertoire

4-0 out of 5 stars A Dramatic Classic
I thuroughly enjoyed the works of Chekhov, the writer who helped define the famous Moscow Art Theatre.His plot twists are a bit difficult to grasp outside of a theatre, but still very enjoyable.

Chekhov utilizes arealistic writing style.Fantastic and absurd stories where the actorsjust flailed around on stage and delivered their lines were of little useto him.His plays can be viewed in many different ways.A scene that atone moment can seem tragic, can be comedic if looked at another way.Thereis no consistant good or evil in a Chekhov piece.He once wrote,"depict life as it actually is.Its aim is truth, unconditional andhonest... a man of letters... has to... realize that dung heaps play a verysignificant role in a landscape and that evil passions are as inherent inlife as good ones."He wanted the emotions that the characters wereexperiencing to be sensed in the actions of the actors on stage, not in thewords that anyone could sit down and read.This makes his work some of themore difficult to perform in theatre today.Only an experienced actor whois able to create a reality of their character is capable of performing aChekhov play.Chekhov's comedies are often mistaken for tragidies.Theyare actually perfect examples of high comedy.In a true tragedy, the maincharacters have some heroic qualities that make their fall devestating tothe audience.The characters in Chekhov's plays "The Seagull,"and "The Cherry Orchard" have no such qualities.Chekhov alsohad a very particular way of writing his play.He set out with a purpose. He felt that the writer of the play needed a clearly defined reason to bewriting, or else they would find themselves lost with a mediocre piece ofwork. ... Read more


22. Tatyana Repina : Two Translated Texts: The 1888 Four-Act Tatyana Repina by Alexei Suvorin and Anton Chekhov's 1889 One-Act Continuation; With an Introduction and Appendices
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Library Binding: 280 Pages (1999-01)
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The sensational onstage suicide of Russian actress and opera singer Kadmina in 1881 led Alexei Suvorin to memorialize her in his 1888 four-act play Tatyana Repina. One year later, his friend Anton Chekhov, himself fascinated by Kadmina, sent Suvorin a one-act play, which was in fact a fifth act continuation of Tatyana Repina, with instructions to show it to no one. When the play was finally made public years later by Chekhov's brother Mikhail, it presented a mystery: Was it, as the brother claimed, a parody? Or was the brother simply distancing himself from a then controversial Suvorin? Russian historian and linguist John Racin examines the enormous documentary record to make the case that Chekhov's one-act was written as an earnest artistic complement to Suvorin's. Racin's convictions led him to retranslate both Tatyana Repinas, presented here with additional relevant texts. ... Read more


23. Notebook of Anton Chekhov
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 Paperback: 146 Pages (1987-10)
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Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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4-0 out of 5 stars A Glimmer of Insight into the Master of the Short Story
In 1984, The Ecco Press published a handsome thirteen-volume edition of The Tales of Chekhov that contained the respected, if somewhat dated, English translations of Constance Garnett. The original thirteen volumes were subsequently supplemented by two additional volumes, "The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings," translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky (a volume which is still in print under the auspices of another publisher) and the book I review here, "Notebook of Anton Chekhov," translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.

Chekhov's stories are, of course, classic examples of the genre. In writing those stories, he was known (not surprisingly) to draw on numerous incidents from his everyday life. As Vladimir Nabokov relates in his "Lectures on Russian Literature," interpolating and quoting from an article on Chekhov:

" 'Do you know how I write my short stories?' [Chekhov] said to Korolenko, the radical journalist and short story writer, when the latter had just made his acquaintance. 'Here's how!' 'He glanced at his table,' Korolenko tells us, 'took up the first object that met his eye--it happened to be an ash tray--placed it before me and said: "If you want it you'll have a story to-morrow. It will be called 'The Ash Tray.' " ' And it seemed to Korolenko then and there that a magical transformation of that ash tray was taking place: 'Certain indefinite situations, adventures which had not yet found concrete form, were already beginning to crystallize about the ash tray.' "

Chekhov regularly recorded seemingly mundane daily incidents in notebooks and diaries and later referred to them in writing his stories. It is from this material that Koteliansky and Woolf have drawn in compiling the short (146 pages) collection of materials titled "Notebook of Anton Chekhov." While hardly an exhaustive collection of these materials, it is a useful little volume that illustrates some of Chekhov's writing habits.

The diary excerpts are a mere twelve pages from Chekhov's 1896 diary. The notebook excerpts are 130 pages from the notebooks written between 1894 and 1896. As the translators note in their short introduction to this collection, "[the] volume consists of notes, themes and sketches for works which Anton Chekhov intended to write, and are characteristic of the methods of his artistic production. If he used any material, he used to strike it out in the note-book."

While unfortunately out of print, "Notebook of Anton Chekhov" is a fascinating companion to Chekhov's stories, a little glimmer of insight into how Chekhov created the remarkably drawn pictures of nineteenth century Russian life that still enchant readers today.

4-0 out of 5 stars A Glimmer of Insight Into the Master of the Short Story
In 1984, The Ecco Press published a handsome thirteen-volume edition of The Tales of Chekhov that contained the respected, if somewhat dated, English translations of Constance Garnett.The original thirteen volumes were subsequently supplemented by two additional volumes, "The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings," translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky (a volume which is still in print under the auspices of another publisher) and the book I review here, "Notebook of Anton Chekhov," translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.

Chekhov's stories are, of course, classic examples of the genre.In writing those stories, he was known (not surprisingly) to draw on numerous incidents from his everyday life.As Vladimir Nabokov relates in his "Lectures on Russian Literature," interpolating and quoting from an article on Chekhov:

" 'Do you know how I write my short stories?' [Chekhov] said to Korolenko, the radical journalist and short story writer, when the latter had just made his acquaintance.'Here's how!''He glanced at his table,' Korolenko tells us, 'took up the first object that met his eye--it happened to be an ash tray--placed it before me and said: "If you want it you'll have a story to-morrow.It will be called 'The Ash Tray.' " ' And it seemed to Korolenko then and there that a magical transformation of that ash tray was taking place: 'Certain indefinite situations, adventures which had not yet found concrete form, were already beginning to crystallize about the ash tray.' "

Chekhov regularly recorded seemingly mundane daily incidents in notebooks and diaries and later referred to them in writing his stories.It is from this material that Koteliansky and Woolf have drawn in compiling the short (146 pages) collection of materials titled "Notebook of Anton Chekhov." While hardly an exhaustive collection of these materials, it is a useful little volume that illustrates some of Chekhov's writing habits.

The diary excerpts are a mere twelve pages from Chekhov's 1896 diary.The notebook excerpts are 130 pages from the notebooks written between 1894 and 1896. As the translators note in their short introduction to this collection, "[the] volume consists of notes, themes and sketches for works which Anton Chekhov intended to write, and are characteristic of the methods of his artistic production. If he used any material, he used to strike it out in the note-book."

While unfortunately out of print, "Notebook of Anton Chekhov" is a fascinating companion to Chekhov's stories, a little glimmer of insight into how Chekhov created the remarkably drawn pictures of nineteenth century Russian life that still enchant readers today. ... Read more


24. The Selected Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
by Anton Chekhov
Kindle Edition: 320 Pages (2004-07-01)
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The Schoolmistress, A Nervous Breakdown, Misery, Champagne, After the Theatre, A Lady's Story, In Exile, The Cattle-Dealers, Sorrow, On Official Duty, The First-Class Passenger, A Tragic Actor, A Transgression, Small Fry, The Requiem, In The Coach-House, Panic Fears, The Bet, The Head-Gardener's Story, The Beauties, The Shoemaker and the Devil, The Wife, Difficult People, The Grasshopper, A Dreary Story, The Privy Councilor, The Man in Case, Gooseberries, About Love, The Lottery Ticket, The Witch, Peasant Wives, The Post, The New Villa, Dreams, The Pipe, Agafya, At Christmas Time, Gusev, The Student, In the Ravine, The Huntsman, Happiness, A Malefactor, and Peasants ... Read more


25. Steppe and Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series)
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 Hardcover: 296 Pages (1915-06)
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The fifth volume of Chekhov short stories completes the publication in the World Classics series of his entire work as a mature fiction-writer.Here are 22 stories, including "The Steppe," Chekhov's first short story to be published in a serious Russian literary journal.All the texts are taken from the highly-acclaimed translation by Ronald Hingley. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars The beginnings of a master writer . . .
I didn't know Chekov was considered a master of the short story until I read Janet Malcolm's pieces about him in The New Yorker. So I started with this book, which contains some of his earliest stories. Each story is amazing and in them you can see him progressing into his own unique style.This is a great book to start with if you're reading Chekov for the first time. ... Read more


26. Love and Other Stories (The Tales of Chekhov, Vol 13)
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 Paperback: 351 Pages (1987-04)
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Love, Lights, A Story Without an End, Mari d'Elle, A Living Chattel, The Doctor, Too Early!, The Cossack, Aborigines, An Inquiry, Martyrs, The Lion and the Sun, A Daughter of Albion, Choristers, Nerves, A Work of Art, A Joke, A Country Cottage, A Blunder, Fat and Thin, The Death of a Government Clerk, A Pink Stocking, At a Summer Villa.Download Description
Love, Lights, A Story Without an End, Mari d'Elle, A Living Chattel, The Doctor, Too Early!, The Cossack, Aborigines, An Inquiry, Martyrs, The Lion and the Sun, A Daughter of Albion, Choristers, Nerves, A Work of Art, A Joke, A Country Cottage, A Blunder, Fat and Thin, The Death of a Government Clerk, A Pink Stocking, At a Summer Villa. ... Read more


27. The Oxford Chekhov: Volume 5: Stories 1889-1891
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 Hardcover: 270 Pages (1970-03-15)
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28. The Duel and Other Stories: The Tales of Chekhov (Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, Short Stories. V. 2.)
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 Paperback: 323 Pages (1984-04)
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Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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4-0 out of 5 stars Exploring the Mind
"The Duel" by Anton Chekhov, is a classic exploration of the human mind. I would definitely recommend you read this book because it is an incredible story told through the eyes and minds of many completely different people, all striving for the same thing; to forgot the days they lost, and make the best of the days they still have.This is a great message and a good wake up call to all those who waste time, telling us to appreciate the little things, and not waste a life on petty squabbles.That is another reason I would recommend this book, because of the moral.But most importantly, it's intriguing story.Anton Chekhov pits a general, an adulterous doctor, a zoologist, a deacon, and a mistress in a small town in the Caucasus.He tells the story through all their eyes, and you find out all of these people, whether they are in love, friends, rivals, or just acquaintances, all just wish for the wings to fly away and escape the tediousness of everyday life.All this centers around the hatred between the zoologist and the doctor, which eventually explodes into the duel.When faced with the idea of the duel, the doctor comes to reason with his faults and his future and in the face of death, resolves his life and what he should do. ... Read more


29. The Oxford Chekhov: Volume 2: Platonov; Ivanov; The Seagull
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 Hardcover: 376 Pages (1967-12-31)
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30. Longer Stories from the Last Decade (Modern Library)
by Anton Chekhov
 Hardcover: 640 Pages (1993-11-16)
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Isbn: 0679600639
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"The short stories of Chekhov are an inexhaustible treasure of humanity and wisdom," wrote Elizabeth Hardwick. "The whole of Russian life lies within them."

Some six hundred tales bear Chekhov's name, not a few of which are the famous "long short stories" written during roughly the last decade of his brief life. This volume gives us eleven of these, in eminent translations by Constance Garnett and chosen by Shelby Foote. Perhaps the most autobiographical is "Three Years," which offers a portrayal of mercantile greed and exploitation that was new to Russian literature. "The Duel" is the story of Ivan Layevsky, a self-styled "St. Petersburg Hamlet," who, filled with Tolstoyan ideas of a noble life of toil on the land, escapes (with another man's wife) to the Caucasus. The ensuing philosophical confrontations among the major characters clearly resemble those in Uncle Vanya. And in the masterly "Ward No. 6," a doctor, disgusted by the stupidity and misery of the world of normal men, forms such a close relationship with an interesting lunatic that society declares the doctor a lunatic too and incarcerates him. The story is devastatingly symbolic of the corruption and hopelessness in Russia toward the end of the
autocracy. Also included are "The Black Monk," "An Anonymous Story," "A Woman's Kingdom," "The Wife," "In the Ravine," "Peasants," "The Murder," and "My Life." "Chekhov is not only a great writer but, even rarer, a liberating one," said Susan Sontag.                        

Shelby Foote has provided an Introduction for this edition. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars The world's shortest great novels.
Someone once asked Chekhov why he didn't write novels. He said that he did, but none of them was over 12,000 words long. These are some of those 'novels'. Each one of them has an intellectual and emotional heft that will blow away most full-size novels. They are like magic tricks, lots of very serious clowns climbing out of an impossibly small car. Chekhov was not the first modernist, but he was probably the greatest.

5-0 out of 5 stars .
Have to agree with the previous reviewer, this is Chekov at his best. It is interesting to see that he matured from writing serial comic stories to such sustained narratives full of compassion and sympathy for the human condition. A friend of mine once said a writer really needs to live in a place for a long time and observe people floating in and out of that context in order to be able to write good narrative. Well I feel these stories are the culmination of a lifetime of Chekov observing the people around him, their hopes and their disappointments, how their lives arc across the passing of years. And it feels true and straight from life, without mannerism or affectation or judgment, the various heartbreak and apathy and small joys of Chekov's characters, these are recognizable as fundamental and immediate to our lives.

I can't think of who can rival Chekov's characterization. A man in "An Anonymous Story", a somewhat spineless bureaucrat and hanger-on who makes fun of his wife and children while among his friends (but whom one can imagine being extremely tender to them in person), he often sits at a piano and fingers hackneyed tunes. But then there is a moment when everything we have known about him becomes transformed, and that glimpse carries the burden of years of disappointment and failure; and he is a minor character in the story!

In the last story of the collection, "The Ravine", a character says: "We can't know everything, how and wherefore...and so it is ordained for man not to know everything but only a half or a quarter. As much as he knows to live, so much he knows." Chekov states beautifully in these stories what it means to be human, our weakness, frailty, and blindness. I'm not sure what good it does us. Make us more cognizant of suffering and sadness (like the Japanese concept of mono no aware)? To what end? I don't know. His is a beautiful statement of it, at any rate.

5-0 out of 5 stars Everything's here
Since the previous volumes of the Modern Library Chekhov were titled Early and Late (with the Late ending with his death), I had thought that they were the complete series.My review on the Later Stories actually had a small complaint that precisely these longer stories were missing.

Well, this is wonderful: everything essential from his short stories (that I've come across) is in these three volumes - making them, I suppose, the greatest collection of short stories every printed.I wish the Modern Library would publish them in paperback, like they did with the six volumes of In Search of Lost Time - I think there's still an audience, although the fact that I found Karlinsky's edition of Chekhov's letters in the bargain bin at my local bookstore (an independent, literary bookstore, no less!) has further lowered my faith in the existence of a large, intelligent American readership.

In any case, publishing more books like this is a small first step in creating one: people who think that anything praised as literature today must be either pointlessly obscure or unconcerned with the real business of life will find an author who'll make it clear why we bother distinguishing between art and trash at all.Reviewers, instead of holding up the masterpiece of the month, may want to take the time to point out wonderful re-issues like this. ... Read more


31. Chekhov: "The Vaudevilles" and Other Short Works (Great Translations for Actors Series)
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Paperback: 212 Pages (1998-02)
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The first complete American translation of Chekhov's ten vaudevilles. The comedic one-act farces are: The Bear, The Proposal, On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco, The Night Before the Trial, On the High Road, The Wedding, The Anniversary, A Tragic Role, and Tatyana Repina. These are jewels for the stage -- ready to use for actors and directors, and for students of drama who wish to enrich their appreciation of the virtuosity and complexity of this great Russian playwright. Chekhov wrote these confections early in his career, before he tuned to his serious plays. All ten have been newly (and faithfully) translated and assembled in a unique collection here, to make them fresh and accessible for contemporary actors and audiences. An introduction is included for literary historical perspective, as well as a glossary and pronunciation guide for the actor's usage. ... Read more


32. The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-Three New Stories
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Paperback: 212 Pages (2000-06)
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Here's a treat for any Chekhov lover: a collection of 43 previouslyuntranslated stories by the Russian master. Even better, these stories date backto the 1880s, when the author was still in his 20s and at his most prolific.That he wrote at all is something of a miracle--unlike other great Russianauthors of his time (Dostoevski, Pushkin, Tolstoy, to name a few), Anton Chekhovwas not a member of the nobility. The son of a bankrupt grocer, he enteredmedical school and became, at the same time, the breadwinner for his impoverished family by cranking out stories for magazines. His revolutionaryapproach to literature was apparent from the get-go. In "Sarah Bernhardt Comesto Town," for example, Chekhov uses a string of telegrams instead of aconventional narrative to tell his story. ("Telegram: Have been drinking toSarah's health all week! Enchanting! She actually dies standing up! Our actorscan't touch the Parisians!") Even more unusual for 19th-century literature isthe apparent lack of a plot. The telegrams are simply a collection of reactionsto a single performance, from an usher ("Let in four. Fourteen rubles. Let infive. Fifteen r. Let in three and one madame. Fifteen rubles") to a doctor("Last night I saw S.B. Her chest--paralytic and flat. Skeletal and muscularstructure--unsatisfactory") to various members of the audience ("Darling! Whenit comes to Sarah Bernhardt, as the saying goes: you can dip a frog in honey butit doesn't mean I'll eat it").

All the qualities the more mature Chekhov is known for in his later works areapparent in these early stories: unconventional narratives, tremendous wit,psychological perspicacity, and above all that peculiarly modern interest inwhy human beings behave the way they do. Translator Peter Constantine'sintroduction gives readers both a good overview of Chekhov's life and a literary context for appreciating the stories collected here, but it is Chekhov himselfwhose remarkable brilliance will keep readers coming back for more. --AlixWilberBook Description
In his twenties, Anton Chekhov was a doctor churning out witty, unconventional stories on the side. This early work was unknown in English until Peter Constantine discovered Chekhov's byline in old Russian magazines at the New York Public Library. This collection, called "a delicious volume" by the London Times, has a freshness and modernist verve that will surprise those familiar with Chekhov's more controlled later work. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars A "must" for Chekov fans & Russian literature students.
The Undiscovered Chekhov is a compilation of superbly crafted shortstories by the Russian literary master writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904),drawn from his work in the 1880s when he was a young man in his twenties.These witty and original short stories arevery ably translated for anAmerican readership by Peter Constantine, who discovered these literarygems in the New York Public Library while browsing through old magazines inthe Slavic and Baltic division. The Undiscovered Chekhov is a"must" for Chekhov enthusiasts and an essential, core addition toall academic and public library Russian literature collections.

5-0 out of 5 stars Pure delight - early Chekhov as enjoyable as later
The only elements holding these 43 pieces together are (a) they are short and (b) they are earlier works of Chekhov.They include character sketches, experimental literature, humor, groups of aphorisms ... all donewith great wit and excellent writing.The translation is very readable;there is no sense of reading foreign syntax.

Examples of pieces in thebook: "First Aid" is a short story in which the inepitude of thecivil service/nobility kills a drunk "drowning" victim throughfolk medicine (tossing on a rug) and vague "CPR"instructions.

"From the Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper" is atale of perpetual hope of promotion based on the demise of the currentbookkeeper given in the form of a diary.

"Questions Posed by a MadMathematician" presents the worst fears for a mathmatics test. Example: "I was chased by 30 dogs, 7 of which were white, 8 gray, andthe rest black.Which of my legs was bitten, the right or theleft?"

"Confession - or Olya, Zhenya, Zoya: A Letter" is abachelor's explanation of why he has never married - the disasters (fromhiccups up) that have foiled each proposal.

The remaining pieces are asdiverse and entertaining.The pieces are the best of over 400 short piecesavailable from the early period.Even if you don't generally read Russianliterature you will enjoy these pieces. ... Read more


33. The Darling and Other Stories: The Tales of Chekhov (Tales of Chekhov (Ecco))
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 Paperback: 329 Pages (1984-04)
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34. The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Paperback: 316 Pages (1987-04)
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35. Chekhov's Early Plays
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Carol Rocamora
 Paperback: 320 Pages (1999-07)
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Discover 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, Platanov, Ivanov, and The Wood Demon. These works are assembled in this third volume of the complete plays of Anton Chekhov, newly translated by Carol Rocamora and published in honor of Chekhov's centennial. Platonov, Chekhov's earliest, rarely translated play is adapted by Rocamora from its original, six-hour long, unfinished state into a playable comedy about a Russian Don Juan who copes with his boredom and ennui by victimizing every woman in the district. Ivanov, Chekhov's incarnation of the Russian Hamlet, is a marvel of a character study which has challenged actors from John Gielgud to Ralph Fiennes to Kevin Kline. And finally, The Wood Demon, Chekhov's earlier, comedic version of his masterpiece, Uncle Vanya. Actors, directors and lovers of Chekhov's plays will delight in discovering many of the settings, characters, and themes that later appear in his four major works. Theatres will find three exciting full-length plays infrequently performed in the United States which merit renewed attention. ... Read more


36. The Oxford Chekhov: Volume 7: Stories 1893-1895
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 Hardcover: 330 Pages (1978-12-07)
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37. Monologues from Chekhov
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Mason W. Cartwright
 Paperback: 64 Pages (1987-12)
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Monologues for men and women from the major plays-"The Cherry Orchard", "The Sea Gull", "The Three Sisters" and "Uncle Vanya"-of Anton Chekhov. These translations represent to first collection of monologues from the works of the Russian master. The acting experience is incomplete without a working knowledge of the plays of Anton Chekhov who-in collaboration with Stanislavski-irrevocably revolutionized the art of dramatic presentation. A must for every serious actor. ... Read more


38. The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Hardcover: 328 Pages (2000-12-04)
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This volume of specially commissioned essays explores the world of Anton Chekhov and the creation, performance and interpretation of his works. The Companion begins with an examination of Chekhov's life and his Russia. Later film versions and adaptations of Chehov's works are analyzed, with insights also offered on acting Chekhov, by Ian McKellen, and directing Chekhov, by Trevor Nunn and Leonid Heifetz. The volume provides essays on special topics such as Chekhov as writer, Chekhov and women, and the Chekhov comedies and stories. ... Read more


39. If Only We Could Know!: An Interpretation of Chekhov
by Vladimir Kataev
Paperback: 320 Pages (2003-09-25)
list price: US$16.95 -- used & new: US$9.43
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Asin: 1566635233
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Editorial Review

Book Description
Mr. Kataev examines Chekhov's major tales, stories, and plays, pointing out patterns of development in Chekhov's approach to characters and themes, and tracing the roots of Chekhov's ideas as expressed through his plots. He quietly undermines many conventional (and persistent) approaches to Chekhov, Western as well as Russion, and establishes a radically new position of his own. Offers the reader fresh insights...enhances our understanding....The book should open a new and most welcome chapter in Chekhov criticism. --Simon Karlinsky. Unquestionably one of the two major studies of Chekhov by Russian critics during the twentieth century. --Karl D. Kramer ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars finally in english!
A long-expected translation of one of the most prominent stydies of Chekhov, written with lucidity and depth akin to Chekhov's own style. ... Read more


40. Treasury of Classic Russian Love Short Stories: In Russian and English
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Luna Han
Hardcover: 167 Pages (1997-12)
list price: US$11.95
Isbn: 0781806011
Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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1-0 out of 5 stars sloppy linguistics
Rather than revue the stories, I think it is more important to note that while the English versions might be grammatically correct, the Russian versions are way out of whack. My wife is from Russia, and she has noted more errors than should ever occur in any book.I can only assume that the writer of the Russian versian was a student of the language rather than a native of Russia. I strongly suggest that you avoid using this book as a platform for for learning the language. ... Read more


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