Author: | Anton Chekhov, Constance Garnett | ISBN: | 1230000244023 |
Publisher: | Sur | Publication: | June 2, 2014 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Anton Chekhov, Constance Garnett |
ISBN: | 1230000244023 |
Publisher: | Sur |
Publication: | June 2, 2014 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (17 april 1998 0 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text."[8]
Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.
Constance Clara Garnett (19 December 1861, Brighton, England – 17 December 1946, The Cearne, Crockham Hill, Kent) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public.
In this ebook:
The Duel and Other Stories
The Lady With The Dog and Other Stories
The Wife and Other Stories
Love and Other Stories
The Bishop and Other Stories
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
The Darling and Other Stories
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
The Party and Other Stories
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (17 april 1998 0 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text."[8]
Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.
Constance Clara Garnett (19 December 1861, Brighton, England – 17 December 1946, The Cearne, Crockham Hill, Kent) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public.
In this ebook:
The Duel and Other Stories
The Lady With The Dog and Other Stories
The Wife and Other Stories
Love and Other Stories
The Bishop and Other Stories
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
The Darling and Other Stories
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
The Party and Other Stories
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends