Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
3) Plays
Author
Series
Penguin classics ; L96
Language
English
Description
At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. This collection of plays shows his subtle blend of comedy, tragedy and psychological insight.--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their peerless renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories--a full deck! These stories, which span the full arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Paul Schmidt's new translations of The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and other plays bring Chekhov up to date. Schmidt restores the vitality and humor that are lost in most academic translations and makes the plays accessible to a modern American sensibility. He also retains their social context, unlike translations by those who have no experience of Russian language or culture.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The English-language debut of Anton Chekhov's first collection of mystery and suspense tales. Considered one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Anton Chekhov actually began his literary career as a crime and mystery writer. Scattered throughout periodicals and literary journals from 1880-1890, Peter Sekirin brings together these psychological suspense stories in a premier collection that provides a fresh look into Chekhov's literary heritage...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Language
English
Description
A day in the country.--Old age.--Kashtanka.--Enemies.--On the way.--Vanka.--La cigale.--Grief.--An inadvertence.--The black monk.--The kiss.--In exile.--A work of art.--Dreams.--A woman's kingdom.--The doctor.--A trifling occurrence.--The hollow.--After the theatre.--The runaway.--Vierochka.--The steppe.--Rothschild's fiddle.
15) Selected stories
Author
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
"One of the world's great masters of the short story, Anton Chekhov wrote about everyday life as he saw it - with humor, insight, and honesty. In this lies his genius: he portrayed the Russian people as they really were, not as he wanted them to be. This Signet Classic presents 20 Chekhov stories, including 12 of his early tales which make their first appearance in English in this paperback collection."--Book cover
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"After their father's death, Olga, Masha, and Irina find life in their small Russian town stifling and hopeless. They long to return to Moscow, the bustling metropolis they left eleven years ago, but their brother Andrei's gambling habits have trapped them in their small provincial lives. A masterful new translation of Chekhov's exploration of yearning and disillusionment"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
New Yorker editor and McSweeney's contributor Ben Greenman reshapes Russian literature's most celebrated stories around America's most popular pop culture icons, probing the deep complexities of Anton Chekov (not to mention those of Cruise or Kardashian). Thought-provoking and funny, these wryly re-imagined tales will be sure-fire favorites for every kind of reader, whether your favorite escapes are celebrity memoirs like L.A. Candy and The Truth...