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A Nervous Breakdown : Penguin LIttle Black Classic No. 111 by Anton Chekhov
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
"I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!' From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucinations, hysterical obsession and moral decay.
A Russian Affair by Anton Chekhov
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Loves
When Gurov sees the lady with the little dog on a windswept promenade, he knows he must have her. But she is different from his other flings - he cannot forget her ...Chekhov's stories are of lost love, love at the wrong time and love that can never be. United by the theme of love, the writings in the " ...Show more
About Love by Anton Chekhov
Category: Classic Fiction
Widely considered to be one of greatest ever writers of the form, Anton Chekhov's short stories offer unforgettable character, crystalline expression, and a beautiful, quiet uncertainty. Collected here are five of his very best tales- 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'The House with the Mezzanine', and t ...Show more
About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived' Raymond Carver's unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achie ...Show more
Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays by Anton Chekhov
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This Norton Critical Edition includes five of Chekhov's major plays-Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard-and three early one-act farces that inform his later work-The Bear, The Wedding, and The Celebration. Laurence Senelick's masterful translations closely preserve Ch ...Show more
Chekhov Plays by Anton Chekhov
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Translated, with an introductory essay, by Elisaveta Fen, and with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. Anton Chekhov's popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, call ...Show more
Chekhov: Plays: The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
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Chekhov: Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov (intro & notes Joe Andrews)
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comi ...Show more
Chekhov: Stories for Our Time by Anton Chekhov; Boris Fishman (Introduction by); Matt McCann (Illustrator); Constance Garnett (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Restless Classics Ser.
The Restless Classics edition of Chekhov: Stories for Our Time presents a must-have collection by the great Russian author who captured humanity in all its complexity, and reintroduces Chekhov as a funny, playful, deeply human, and thoroughly modern writer. The great 19th-century Russian author and ...Show more
Chekhov on Theatre by Chekhov Anton and Mulrine Stephen(Translated by)
Category: Classics | Series: ... on Theatre Ser.
Chekhov started writing about theatre in newspaper articles and in his own letters even before he began writing plays. Later, he wrote in detail about his own plays to his lifelong friend and mentor Alexei Suvorin; his wife and leading actress, Olga Knipper; and to the two directors of the Moscow Art Th ...Show more
Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando - Two Renderings for the Stage by Virginia Woolf; Anton Chekhov; Sarah Ruhl (Adapted by)
Category: Children's Classic Fiction
Ruhl's Orlando] captures both the intellectual spirit and the literary brilliance of Woolf's work. . . . Ruhl writes with the imaginative sweep that allows Woolf's poetry to soar.--Variety Sarah Ruhl's smart new translation of Three Sisters] feels just right to contemporary American ears--lean, colloq ...Show more