Download or read book The Chekhov Omnibus written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Everyman's Classic Library in Paperback. This book was released on 1994 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes notes and criticism
Download or read book The Anton Chekov Omnibus written by Anton Chekov and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-09-23 with total page 2052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book The Undiscovered Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Witch and Other Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Selected Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty-four short stories and comic sketches by Anton Chekhov
Download or read book The Bet written by Anton Chekhov and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”
Download or read book Chekhov written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov written by Vera Gottlieb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of specially commissioned essays explores the world of Anton Chekhov - one of the most important dramatists in the repertoire - and the creation, performance and interpretation of his works. The Companion, first published in 2000, begins with an examination of Chekhov's life, his Russia, and the original productions of his plays at the Moscow Art Theatre. Later film versions and adaptations of Chekhov's works are analysed, with valuable insights also offered on acting Chekhov, by Ian McKellen, and directing Chekhov, by Trevor Nunn and Leonid Heifetz. The volume also provides essays on 'special topics' such as Chekhov as writer, Chekhov and women, and the Chekhov comedies and stories. Key plays, such as The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull, receive dedicated chapters while lesser-known works and genres are also brought to light. The volume concludes with appendices of primary sources, lists of works, and a select bibliography.
Download or read book Anton Chekhov written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Anton Chekhov.
Download or read book Anton Chekhov written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Library presents the incomparable short stories of Anton Chekhov, selected and introduced by renowned author Shelby Foote. This first volume of 70 earlier stories includes "The Steppe", "The Cossack", "The Cook's Wedding", and "Joy", among others.
Download or read book The Comic Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 1999-02-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The William R Ferris Reader Omnibus E book written by William Ferris and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-04-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned folklorist William R. Ferris has captured the voices of southern musicians, artists, writers, and thinkers for forty years—and we have been proud to publish his work in Southern Cultures for nearly half of that time. To celebrate Southern Cultures' 20th anniversary, we present our inaugural special omnibus ebook, The William R. Ferris Reader. Collected here for the first time are all 20 of Bill Ferris's essays and interviews as they have appeared in our pages between 1995 and 2013, as well as an introduction to the collection by Ferris. From folk humor to moon pies to Faulkner, Welty, Walker, and so much more, we are delighted to share this special collection of a favored friend, mentor, and colleague.
Download or read book Best Short Stories Omnibus Volume 1 written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 6513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Witch and Other Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Witch and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov invites readers into a world where ordinary lives are met with extraordinary circumstances. The collection explores human frailty, morality, and the often unexpected twists of life. The stories of Chekhov are filled with insightful social commentary, well-crafted characters, and narratives that reveal the depths of human emotions. Each story in The Witch and Other Stories is a masterclass in storytelling, offering a glimpse into the human heart and soul. Dive into the rich tapestry of 19th-century Russian society as Chekhov masterfully navigates the complexities of love, loss, and life itself. Discover why The Witch and Other Stories continues to captivate readers with its intricate narratives and thought-provoking themes. So why read The Witch and Other Stories? This collection isn't merely a series of tales; it is a mirror reflecting the human condition in all its beauty and agony. Embrace the richness of Chekhov's work and order your copy today.
Download or read book The Seagull written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seagull Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The best-selling official for Novel that everybody is looking for. The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, authored within 1895 as well as created in 1896. The Seagull is usually regarded as the first of his 4 major plays. It dramatizes the artistic and romantic conflicts between 4 characters: the popular middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, as well as the son of her the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplyov.Though the character of Trigorin is regarded as Chekhov's best male role as Chekhov's other full-length plays, The Seagull is based in an ensemble cast of varied, completely developed characters. In distinctions to the melodrama of mainstream 19th-century theatre, lurid steps (such as Konstantin's suicide attempts) aren't shown onstage. Characters tend to talk in tactics that skirt around problems instead of addressing them directly; quite simply, their lines are full of what's known in remarkable practice as subtext.The opening night of the very first creation was a popular failure. Vera Komissarzhevskaya, taking part in Nina, was so unnerved through the hostility of this market that she lost voice. The audience was left by Chekhov and spent the previous 2 actions behind the scenes. When supporters published to him the generation, later on, grew to become successful, he assumed that these were simply attempting to be sort. When Konstantin Stanislavski, the seminal Russian theatre professional of the moment, directed it inside 1898 for the Moscow Art Theatre of his, the play would have been a triumph. Stanislavski's creation became "one of probably the greatest incidents in the record of Russian theatre and among probably the greatest brand new advancements in the history of planet drama".Stanislavski's The Seagull was caused by direction to be perceived as a tragedy via overzealousness with the idea of subtext, while Chekhov intended it to become a comedy.
Download or read book Chekhov Plays written by Anton Chekhov and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, calling for actors with intelligence and common sense rather than a dramatic voice or histrionic skills.
Download or read book Understanding Chekhov written by Donald Rayfield and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 him. Chekhov can be (as his friends complained) the most elusive of writers, and one who appears capable of having two opposite views and opposite intentions simultaneously. Donald Rayfield, one of the world's foremost Chekhov scholars, reveals the layers of meaning on which the stories and plays are built. All Chekhov's important works are studied: we see how closely the two genres are connected and gain insight into Chekhov's rapid development over his brief twenty years of creative life, from medical student supplementing his income by writing comic stories, to father of twentieth-century drama and narrative prose.
