Chekhov, Anton

Fayetteville. 1995. University of Arkansas Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1557283915. Translated from the Russian by Cynthia Carlile and Sharon McKee. Edited and with an introduction by Andrei Turkov. 327 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Russia Biography Anton Chekhov. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This anthology comprises reminiscences by a number of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's contemporaries, including the artist Konstantin Korovin, the writer Maxim Gorky, and Chekhov's wife, Olga Knipper - Chekhova, and numerous letters written by Chekhov to his fellow writers and artists, family, publishers, and others. Now available for the first time in English in America, these sixty-eight letters and ten essay - length reminiscences trace the development of Chekhov's personality and talent, opening a window into the life and times of one of the world's greatest short - story writers and playwrights. These perspectives on his family life and marriage, his early works, the stage productions of his plays, his literary successes, and the philosophies behind his writing create a rich biography of Chekhov that will reward writers, scholars. and all lovers of literature. FROM THE REMINISCENCES OF V. G, KOROLENKO: 'Do you know how I write my little stories? Here . .' [Chekhov] glanced at the table, picked up the first thing that met his eye - it was an ashtray - placed it in front of me and said, If you like, you can have a story tomorrow entitled 'The Ashtray.' His eyes sparkled with merriment. It was as if some vague images, ideas and adventures, still without form but already invested with humor, were beginning to gather over the ashtray. Now, on recalling this conversation, the small lounge where his elderly mother sat behind the samovar, the sympathetic smiles of his sister and brother, in short, the whole atmosphere of this united, loving family, in the center of which stood this young man, charming and talented and with such an apparently cheerful view of life - it seems to me that this was the happiest, and the last happy period in the life of the whole family, a joyous idyll just before the approaching drama. inventory #42884 ISBN: 1557283915.