Author: Anton Pavlovich ChekhovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Portable Chekhov; Ed., and with an Introd., by Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Author: Anton Pavlovich ChekhovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Portable Chekhov
Author: Anton ChekhovPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140150358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is accounted the single most important influence on the development of the modern short story. Edited and with an introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, The Portable Chekhov presents twenty-eight of Chekhov’s best stories, chosen as particularly representative of his many-sided portrayal of the human comedy—including “The Kiss,” “The Darling,” and “In the Ravine”—as well as two complete plays; The Boor, an example of Chekhov’s earlier dramatic work, and The Cherry Orchard, his last and finest play. In addition, this volume includes a selection of letters, candidly revealing of Chekhov’s impassioned convictions on life and art, his high aspirations, his marriage, and his omnipresent compassion.
The Russian Tragedy
Author: Hugh RagsdalePublisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9781563247552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Edith Base's letters to her pen pal Phylabe Houston in Greeley, Colorado, are an unwittingly (and perhaps for that reason) fascinating historical document of the day to day life of a Londoner from 1941 to 1947. With great humor and astute observation she explains to her pal how people coped during the war years, describes her patrols as an air raid warden, the darkly humorous social organization of the shelters, and the more mundane life details that simply underscore the eerie "normality" that arises in extraordinary situations. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Chekhov
Author: Ed SandersPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780876859650
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In a unique style of biographical poetry, Edward Sanders recounts the short life and revolutionary times of Anton Chekov. "It's a highly readable work, beautiful as poetry, accessible as prose, that succeeds brilliantly in telling Chekhov's complex, fascinating life story."--Booklist
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Slavonic Collection
Author: New York Public Library. Slavonic DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Political History and Culture of Russia
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Scholarly articles dealing with political events in Russia up to 1991.
The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov
Author: Vera GottliebPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521589178
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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.
Lectures on Russian Literature
Author: Vladimir NabokovPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1328508021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, and Chekhov. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov’s teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. This volume collects Nabokov’s famous lectures on 19th century Russian literature, with analysis and commentary on Nikolay Gogol’s Dead Souls and “The Overcoat”; Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons; Maxim Gorki’s “On the Rafts”; Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilych; two short stories and a play by Anton Chekhov; and several works by Fyodor Dostoevski, including Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Possessed. This volume also includes Nabokov’s lectures on the art of translation, the nature of Russian censorship, and other topics. Featured throughout the volume are photographic reproductions of Nabokov’s original notes. “This volume . . . never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians.” —Anthony Burgess Introduction by Fredson Bowers
The Poetics of American Song Lyrics
Author: Charlotte PencePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617031569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Poets, teachers, and musicologists fusing studies of form, scansion, and musical creation to redefine the place of the American bard