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Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov — himself a country doctor — recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories collected here are a bleakly savage indictment of a society paralysed by spiritual malaise, and morbidly conscious of evils which can neither be killed nor cured. This volume also contains an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: - A unique collection of Chekhov's most lyrical stories in a new translation of great skill and originality, published to coincide with the centenary of Chekhov's death. — This translation captures Chekhov's musicality and modernism by paying special attention to his tone and prose rhythm — closer to the Russian while shaping the prose idiomatically. — The stories are arranged chronologically to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This volume contains English translations of: «Ivanov», «The Seagull», «Uncle Vanya», «Three Sisters», and «The Cherry Orchard», with a new Introduction by Ronald Hingley.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A schoolteacher in a provincial town falls in love with and marries a young local woman. He thinks he's found a bliss only described in novels. But before long, his sharp points of bliss become blurred. The loss of ideals and poverty of actual experience are the themes of these stories. Chekhov's Russians, at the close of the 19th century are trapped in a prison of frustration, which he depicts…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: 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, calling for actors with intelligence and common sense rather than a dramatic voice or histrionic skills. He takes from everyday life themes of frustration which apply to us all – the difficulty of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The five year friendship and marriage of the writer Anton Chekhov and the actress Olga Knipper, who created many of the central female roles in his plays, is one of the most extraordinary love stories in the history of the theatre. Because of Knipper's work at the Moscow Art Theatre and Chekhov's illness, which bound him to Yalta, their relationship flourished through a constant stream of letters…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 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. This book is part of the «Great Loves» series.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 600) Аннотация: Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels – here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Steppe – the most lyrical of the five – is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Seagull, a spectacular failure on its first appearance, was the play that, on its second, established Anton Chekhov as an important and revolutionary dramatist. Here, amid the weariness of life in the country, the famous actress Arkadina presides over a household riven with desperate love, with dreams of success and dread of failure. It is her son, Konstantin, who one day shoots a seagull; it…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 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 comic sketches, as well as examples of his great, mature works. Throughout, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Primarily known as a dramatist, Chekhov also wrote short stories. This selection of his work includes «The Swedish Match», «Easter Eve», «Mire», «On the Road», «Verotchka», «Volodya», «The Kiss», «Sleepy» and «The Steppe».