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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is often referred to as one of the seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. He made no apologies for the difficulties he posed to the readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.
Content:
Introduction:
Biography by Constance Garnett
Novel:
The Shooting Party
Plays:
On the High Road
Swan Song
Ivanoff
Anniversary
Jubilee
Proposal
Wedding
Bear
Boor
Seagull
Reluctant Hero
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
Cherry Orchard
On the Harmfulness of Tobacco
Wood Demon
Novellas and Short Stories:
Living Chattel
Bliss
Joy
At The Barber's
Enigmatic Nature
Classical Student
Matter of Classics
Death of A Government Clerk
Daughter of Albion
Trousseau
Inquiry
Fat and Thin
Tragic Actor
Slanderer
Bird Market
Choristers
Album
Minds in Ferment
Chameleon
In The Graveyard
Oysters
Swedish Match
Safety Match
The Marshal's Widow
Small Fry
In an Hotel
Boots
Nerves
Country Cottage
Malingerers
Fish
Horsey Name
Gone Astray
Huntsman
Malefactor
Father of the Family
Dead Body
Cook's Wedding
In A Strange Land
Overdoing It
Old Age
Sorrow
Oh! The Public
Mari D'Elle
The Looking-Glass
Art
A Blunder
Children
Misery
Upheaval
Actor's End
The Requiem
Anyuta
Ivan Matveyitch
The Witch
Story Without an End
Joke
Agafya
Nightmare
Grisha
Love
Easter Eve
Ladies
Strong Impressions
Gentleman Friend
Happy Man
Privy Councillor
Day in the Country
At a Summer Villa
Panic Fears
Chemist's Wife
Not Wanted
Chorus Girl
Schoolmaster
Troublesome Visitor
Husband
Misfortune
Pink Stocking
Martyrs
First-Class Passenger
Talent
Dependents
Jeune Premier
In The Dark
Trivial Incident
Tripping Tongue
Trifle from Life
Difficult People
In the Court
Peculiar Man
Mire
Dreams
Hush
...
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is often referred to as one of the seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. He made no apologies for the difficulties he posed to the readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.
Content:
Introduction:
Biography by Constance Garnett
Novel:
The Shooting Party
Plays:
On the High Road
Swan Song
Ivanoff
Anniversary
Jubilee
Proposal
Wedding
Bear
Boor
Seagull
Reluctant Hero
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
Cherry Orchard
On the Harmfulness of Tobacco
Wood Demon
Novellas and Short Stories:
Living Chattel
Bliss
Joy
At The Barber's
Enigmatic Nature
Classical Student
Matter of Classics
Death of A Government Clerk
Daughter of Albion
Trousseau
Inquiry
Fat and Thin
Tragic Actor
Slanderer
Bird Market
Choristers
Album
Minds in Ferment
Chameleon
In The Graveyard
Oysters
Swedish Match
Safety Match
The Marshal's Widow
Small Fry
In an Hotel
Boots
Nerves
Country Cottage
Malingerers
Fish
Horsey Name
Gone Astray
Huntsman
Malefactor
Father of the Family
Dead Body
Cook's Wedding
In A Strange Land
Overdoing It
Old Age
Sorrow
Oh! The Public
Mari D'Elle
The Looking-Glass
Art
A Blunder
Children
Misery
Upheaval
Actor's End
The Requiem
Anyuta
Ivan Matveyitch
The Witch
Story Without an End
Joke
Agafya
Nightmare
Grisha
Love
Easter Eve
Ladies
Strong Impressions
Gentleman Friend
Happy Man
Privy Councillor
Day in the Country
At a Summer Villa
Panic Fears
Chemist's Wife
Not Wanted
Chorus Girl
Schoolmaster
Troublesome Visitor
Husband
Misfortune
Pink Stocking
Martyrs
First-Class Passenger
Talent
Dependents
Jeune Premier
In The Dark
Trivial Incident
Tripping Tongue
Trifle from Life
Difficult People
In the Court
Peculiar Man
Mire
Dreams
Hush
...
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Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.
In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.
Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Mór Jókai. People also mocked ideological optimism of Jókai as a politician.
Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.
In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.
The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.
Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion." Because he objected that the paper conducted against [a:Alfred Dreyfu
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.
In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.
Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Mór Jókai. People also mocked ideological optimism of Jókai as a politician.
Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.
In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.
The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.
Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion." Because he objected that the paper conducted against [a:Alfred Dreyfu
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