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Understanding Chekhov
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Donald Rayfield
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Of all Russian writers, Chekhov is one of the best liked and most easily appreciated. Yet because his work is subtle and understated, we need help to understand
Anton Chekhov
Language: en
Pages: 594
Authors: Donald Rayfield
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-07 - Publisher: Faber & Faber

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The description 'definitive' is too easily used, but Donald Rayfield's biography of Chekhov merits it unhesitatingly. To quote no less an authority than Michael
Reading Chekhov
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Janet Malcolm
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-18 - Publisher: Random House

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To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close
Seeing Chekhov
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Michael C. Finke
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-05 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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"Chekhov's keen powers of observation have been remarked by both memoirists who knew him well and scholars who approach him only through the written record and
How to Write Like Chekhov
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Anton Chekhov
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-23 - Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

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Maxim Gorky said that no one understood -- the tragedy of life's trivialities -- as clearly as Anton Chekhov, widely considered the father of the modern short s