Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Prank is Chekhov's own selection of the best of his early work, the first book he put together and the first book he hoped to publish. Assembled in 1882, with illustrations by Nikolay Chekhov, the book was then presented to the censor for approval-which was denied. Now, more than a hundred and thirty years later, The Prank appears here for the first time in any language." --
Author
Publisher
Smith and Kraus
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Chekhov called The Sea Gull a comedy, and perhaps it is, if you're watching at some great Olympian distance from the cares, sorrows, hopes, and joys of human life. For mortals, however, this play stands as the incarnation of all the dreams and despair, the almost unbearable exhilaration and the truly unbearable anguish, that is the essence of youth. The Sea Gull is the sharpest, the most achingly bittersweet, of Chekhov's great plays.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
"Platonov" is the title given to the English version of an 1878 unnamed play by Checkhov about a disillusioned and philandering provincial schoolmaster.
The lead character is Mikhail Platonov, a disillusioned provincial schoolmaster. The play is set in a dilapidated country house in the Russian provinces. Landowner Anna Petrovna, Sofia Yegorovna, wife of Anna Petrovna's stepson, and one of his colleagues fall in love with the married Platonov. He...
