Download or read book Masters of Prose Anton Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work. This edition is dedicated to the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, who is considered one of the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." This book contains the following writings: Biographical: Letters of Anton Chekhov to his family and friends, translated by Constance Garnett. Short Stories: The Lady With The Little Dog; Ward No 6; A Joke; The Darling; Kashtanka; The Black Monk; In the ravine; My Life; At a country house; The death of a government clerk; The bet; Misery; The cook’s wedding; An avenger; Oysters; A Blunder. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
Download or read book The Schoolmistress and Other Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by Mint Editions. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Schoolmistress and Other Stories (1920) is a collection of short stories by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. "The Schoolmistress" was written in 1897 and published in an issue of Moscow's daily newspaper Russkiye Vedomosti. Even for Chekhov, whose work is characteristically bleak and noted for its unsparing realism, the title story of this collection is particularly hopeless. And yet, reading it alongside these other stories by a true icon of world and Russian literature, one cannot help but feel a sense of hope, reminded--as Chekhov's readers almost invariably are--of the light one finds in even the darkest of places. "The Schoolmistress," which Chekhov wrote in Nice, is a brief story that follows Maria Vasilyevna as she returns to the village where she lives and works after collecting her pay in town. On the way, her cart nearly overturns, and she is forced to get out in the middle of a freezing river. To dry off, she takes a break at a local tavern, where she meets the formerly handsome Khanov, a landlord of her acquaintance. As she continues on her journey, she muses on her lot in life. Beset with memories and regrets, she struggles to make it home to a life she can hardly bear. "A Nervous Breakdown," originally published in 1889, is the story of a young law student who reluctantly agrees to accompany his friends on a night in Moscow's red-light district. Overwhelmed with despair and guilt, he struggles to reconcile what he sees with his own idealistic sense of the world. These are only two of the twenty-one works collected in The Schoolmistress and Other Stories, which showcase the immense talents of Anton Chekhov, an icon of Russian literature. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Anton Chekhov's The Schoolmistress and Other Stories is a classic of Russian literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book Letters of Anton Chekhov written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here are the letters of famed master of the short story, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). The son of a former serf in southern Russia, Chekhov attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own principles and conceptions of truth, for a time coming under the influence of Leo Tolstoy. The letters in this volume illustrate the charming blend of narration and wit that comprise Chekhov's signature style. Ranging from love letters, discussions of literature with publishers and directors, and descriptions of the landscapes, people and preoccupations of his daily life, this collection lets readers see inside the mind of one of the world's greatest writers.
Download or read book The Schoolmaster and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov Fiction Classics Literary Short Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Schoolmistress and Other Stories contains twenty-one tales by Russian master of drama and the short story, Anton Chekhov.
Download or read book The House With The Mezzanine and Other Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories written by famous Russian novelist, story writer, playwright and social critique Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 'The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories' was first published in the year 1917.
Download or read book A Life in Letters written by Anton Chekhov and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 affectionate bulletins to his family, insightful discussions of literature with publishers and theater directors, and tender love letters to his actress wife. Vividly evoking landscapes, people, and his daily life, the letters offer revealing glimpses into Chekhov's preoccupations-the onset of tuberculosis, his dual careers as doctor and writer, and his ambivalence about his growing reputation as Russia's foremost playwright and author. This volume takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest writers, and the character that emerges from these pages is resilient, generous, charming, and life enhancing.
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Download or read book Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends" is the selection from the bunch of eighteen hundred and ninety letters Chekhov wrote in his lifetime. According to the book's editor, the letters presented in the book are best to illustrate Chekhov's life, character, and opinions. A reader gets a unique opportunity to learn about the personality of this Russian short-story writer, playwright, and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature.
Download or read book The Schoolmaster and Other Stories Didactic Press Paperbacks written by Antón Chékhov and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Chekov (1860-1904) 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 necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own principles and conceptions of truth, for a time coming under the influence of Leo Tolstoy. As a result of his widespread popularity, Chekov amassed a vast collection of short stories displaying an early use of stream-of-consciousness writing, as well as his powerful ideas concerning the individual, the tedium of life, and the beauty nature and humanity. This edition contains many stories, including "Enemies," "In the Dark," "A Mystery," "Joy," "A Peculiar Man," "The Album," "Overdoing It," "In the Graveyard," and "In a Strange Land."
Download or read book The Undiscovered Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-05-02 with total page 0 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 Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by Digireads.com. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton 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 necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by publishing magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own principles and conceptions of truth, for a time coming under the influence of Leo Tolstoy. As a result of his widespread popularity, Chekhov amassed a vast collection of short stories displaying an early use of stream-of-consciousness writing, as well as his powerful ideas concerning the individual, the tedium of life, and the beauty of nature and humanity. Twenty-eight stories are collected here in the "Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov" including many of the author's most popular shorter works. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
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 In the Twilight written by Anton Chekhov and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new translation provides an invaluable glimpse into a pivotal moment in the writer's literary career The third collection of short stories compiled by Anton Chekhov himself, was his first major success and won him the prestigious Pushkin Prize when it was published in 1887. This volume represents a clear milestone in the writer's passage from the youthful Antosha Chekhonte, author of slight comic sketches, to the mature master of the short-story genre. This edition presents the 16 tales of the original collection, ranging from well-known and acknowledged gems such as "Agafya" and "On the Road" to others which will be fresh even to many seasoned readers of Chekhov.
Download or read book A Taste of Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Man will only become better when we have shown him to himself as he is.." - Anton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov is widely considered one of history's finest writers of short stories and plays. Indeed, it could well be argued that he invented or at least perfected the short story.This compact volume is an introduction to the works of the master storyteller, via nine stories spanning the last twenty years of his life.Contains fresh translations of the stories: Joy, The Dear Dog, A Little Joke, Bliny, Happiness, The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, About Love, The Bride.
Download or read book Peasants and Other Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life. This powerful and revealing selection from Chekhov's final works, made by the legendary American critic Edmund Wilson, offers stories of novelistic richness and complexity, published in the only formatp edition to present them in chronological order. Table of Contents A Woman's Kingdom Three Years The Murder My Life Peasants The New Villa In the Ravine The Bishop Betrothed
Download or read book The Wife and Other Stories written by Anton Anton Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Wife, and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) 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 necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own principles and conceptions of truth, for a time coming under the influence of Leo Tolstoy. As a result of his widespread popularity, Chekhov amassed a vast collection of short stories displaying an early use of stream-of-consciousness writing, as well as his powerful ideas concerning the individual, the tedium of life, and the beauty nature and humanity. This edition contains "The Wife," "Difficult People," "The Grasshopper," "A Dreary Story," "The Privy Councilor," "A Man in a Case," "Gooseberries," "About Love,"
Download or read book Letters of Anton Chekhov written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anton Chekhov's plays and stories have become familiar classics in translation, but his remarkable correspondence has been more or less unknown to American readers. Yet the letters show Chekhov intimately as man and artist, and offer a revealing glimpse of Russian life in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. From the various Russian editions of the voluminous Chekhov correspondence, Avrahm Yarmolinsky has chosen more than five hundred letters for this book, annotating them where necessary to identify people, places, and events. What emerges from this comprehensive selection is a compelling self-portrait of a man of irrepressible humor, a man who abhorred deceit and coercion; loved individuality and freedom; trusted in science; looked quizzically at government; had no faith in the intelligentsia, the proletariat, or for that matter the peasantry from which he stemmed, yet had a strong sense of civic responsibility and was deeply humane. As writer, doctor, and playwright, as kinsman and husband, he was a man of genius and generosity. He was also, as Mr. Yarmolinsky writes, 'an incorruptible witness' to his time. Chekhov is a complex figure, and the letters disclose a person more than usually self-contradictory, elusive, and lonely. For much of his life he was dangerously ill, and his last years were spent as a consumptive in exile in the Crimea. From his home there--or from hotels in Nice, Moscow, and finally the Black Forest--letters poured out to members of his family, other writers and doctors, editors, actors, and his wife--an actress with the Moscow Art Theater who played leading roles in most of his plays. These letters are as engaging as the earlier ones written while traveling across Siberia to study the penal colony on Sakhalin, or to his first publishers and friends in the theater. Read chronologically, from the earliest teenage missives of the 1870s to his last letters of 1904, they tell a story of his delight in life, of passion, of wrenching pathos."--Dust jacket.
