The Undiscovered Chekhov

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609803175
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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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.

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ISBN 13 : 9780756900601
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609806654
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Apples written by Anton Chekhov and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the follow-up to his National Translation Award-winning collection The Undiscovered Chekhov, translator and scholar Peter Constantine brings us more little-known work from the legendary author's early days as a magazine writer, pseudonymously turning out pieces for Russia's small middle class. These stories are fresh, yet mature, snapshots of the style with which Chekhov would come to be associated, both uproariously tragic and darkly comic, and lit from within by a deep fellow feeling for all of humanity. As his readers have come expect, Constantine has translated this work with a masterly command of both languages' subtleties, capturing the shadings and intricacies of Chekhov's writing that flash and recede like sunlight on an orchard, offering Chekhov's tough and amused perspectives on daily phenomena like love, aging, class, and work. With moments that seem to presage the most contemporary writing, Chekhov's Little Apples reveals one of the world's greatest writers as we have rarely seen him, an author both deeply of his times and far ahead of them.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583220139
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Undiscovered Chekhov written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories by a 19th century Russian master, written for newspapers and magazines when he was an unknown. In one, a man discovers he does not have the money to pay for the goods he bought, another is on an arranged engagement.

Author : Lin Enger
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452965714
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Undiscovered Country written by Lin Enger and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback—a bold reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and a hair-bristling story of betrayal, revenge, and the possibilities of forgiveness On a cold November afternoon in northern Minnesota, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson finds his hunting partner—his father—sprawled on the forest floor, dead of a rifle wound. Authorities rule it a suicide, but Jesse is not convinced. Haunted by the ghost of his dad, and compelled by recently unearthed secrets, he is forced to wrestle with questions of justice and retribution even as he tries to hold his family, and himself, together.

Author : Isaac Babel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393927032
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaac Babel's Selected Writings (Norton Critical Editions) written by Isaac Babel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Kashirina), M. N. Berkov, Iosif Stalin, Vyacheslav Polonsky, Clara Malraux, Kornei Chukovsky, Erwin Sinko, Antonina Pirozhkova, Dmitry Furmanov, and others. Many of these materials appear in English for the first time." ""Criticism" brings together five major assessments of Babel's legacy, by Viktor Shklovsky, Semyon Budyonny, Lionel Trilling, Efraim Sicher, and Gregory Freidin." "A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography complete this Norton Critical Edition." --Book Jacket.

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book The Unknown Chekhov written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mikhail Chekhov
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230101976
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anton Chekhov: A Brother's Memoir written by Mikhail Chekhov and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a style reminiscent of Anton Chekhov himself--realistic, intimate, and dynamic--Mikhail Chekhov shares unparalleled memories and insights, transporting readers into the world of the Chekhov family. He visits the places where his brother lived and worked and introduces the people he knew and loved, Leo Tolstoy and Piotr Tchaikovsky among them. As a unique eyewitness to the beloved writer's formative years and his artistic maturity, Mikhail Chekhov shows here first-hand the events that inspired the plots for The Seagull, The Black Monk, and The Steppe, among other enduring works. Captivating, surprising, and a joy to read, this memoir reveals the remarkable life of one the most masterful storytellers of our time.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374526745
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Chekhov written by Anton Chekhov and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the introduction to The Unknown Chekhov: At least a dozen years were to pass [after Anton Chekhov’s first short story published in English] before his tales began to gain some attention in the English-speaking world. ... [And yet] when work on the present collection was begun, scores of stories were still inaccessible in English, some of them comparable to those that have become a part of the literary heritage of the west. ... At the start of his career [Chekhov] turned out a great deal of copy for the comic papers [that] evidenced a genuine sense of fun, a satiric verve, an eye for revealing details of appearance and behavior, an ear for living speech, signs of that “talent for humanity,” compacted of understanding and compassion, which is Chekhov’s signature. ... From the first, the youthful humorist tried his hand at journalism... These breezy, gossipy, often biting paragraphs—he did not flinch from muckraking—touched on everything, from the unsanitary condition of the tenements to women’s fashions. ... Wholly unknown [in English] were Chekhov’s journalistic writings, as well as his book on the island of Sakhalin and its penal colony. The reader is offered here a selection from all of this material.

Author : Walter Koenig
Publisher : New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chekov's Enterprise written by Walter Koenig and published by New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks. This book was released on 1980 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The actor who portrays Lieutenant Pavel Chekov of the Starship Enterprise describes his experiences and provides portraits of fellow actors during the filming of the Star trek movie based on the popular television series.