Essential Tales Of Chekhov (Chekhov A.P.)(Paperback / softback)

Essential Tales Of Chekhov (Chekhov A.P.)(Paperback / softback)

In this extraordinary collection of twenty tales, Richard Ford, a master short-story writer in his own right, has selected his personal favourites, including familiar masterpieces as well as several brilliant lesser-known

Chekhov'S Selected Stories (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback / softback)

Young Chekhov: Platonov, Ivanov, the Seagull (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

Anton Chekhov is one of the undisputed masters of world drama. He is usually thought to hide himself behind his characters and stories, keeping his own personality well off-stage. But when he was young he wrote three plays -- Platonov, Ivanov and The Seagull -- which, with their thrilling sunbursts

Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the tale of a boy's journey to a new school in Kiev, travelling through majestic landscapes towards an unknown destiny. 'Gusev' depicts an ocean voyage, where the sea takes on a terrifying, primeval

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov's

The Plays of Anton Chekhov (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

These critically hailed translations of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor.Without compromising the spirit of the text, Paul Schmidt accurately translates Chekhov's

The Steppe and Other Stories (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

The fifth volume of Chekhov short stories completes the publication in the World Classics series of his entire work as a mature fiction-writer. Here are 22 stories, including 'The Steppe,' Chekhov's first short story to be published in a serious Russian literary journal. All the texts are taken

Chekhov - Scenes from a Life (Bartlett Rosamund)(Paperback / softback)

A cogent and insightful new biography of one of the great Russian

Uncle Vanya (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

Shooting Party (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback / softback)

A story of concealed love and fatal jealousy wrapped into a classic murder mystery When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called to investigate. But suspicion descends upon virtually everyone, for, as we soon learn, the victim was

Cherry Orchard (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback / softback)

Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of Lopakhin, a peasant turned entrepreneur, to save the family

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

Tales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short story Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's

Sakhalin Island (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his

The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theatre. Robert Burstein declared that 'there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role.' In The Cherry Orchard, his last full-length play, an impoverished landowning family is unable to face the fact that

About Love and Other Stories (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov 'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived.' This 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

Forty Stories (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty

Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training (Deshpande Hutchinson Anjalee)(Paperback)

Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training offers a comprehensive analysis of the Sanford Meisner Acting Technique in comparison to the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. This compilation reveals the connections as well as the contradictions between these two

The Story of a Nobody (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task - an ailing, world-weary 'nobody' - seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own

In the Ravine & Other Stories (Chekhov Anton)(Pevná vazba)

Anton Chekhov was one of the world's most accomplished short-story writers and this new collection displays the breadth and variety of his genius. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These

Plays: The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, the Seagull and Uncle Vanya (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback)

The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed between the lines. Collected in this volume are

Russian Classics in Russian and English: Learn Russian with Chekhov (Chekhov Anton Pavlovich)(Paperback)

In this book fifteen Chekhov's short stories are presented in three formats: the original Russian texts with stress marks, the parallel English translations and the transliterated texts - Russian words written with Latin letters to facilitate the experience of learning to read Russian. Each text

Directing with the Michael Chekhov Technique: A Workbook with Video for Directors, Teachers and Actors (Monday Mark)(Paperback)

Directing with the Michael Chekhov Technique explores the collaborative process between a play's director and the entire production team, making the journey of a production process cohesive using the Michael Chekhov Technique. No other technique provides the tools for both actor and director to

Forty-One False Starts - Essays on Artists and Writers (Malcolm Janet)(Paperback / softback)

From the celebrated author of The Journalist and the Murderer and Reading Chekhov comes a brilliant, compelling collection of essays on art, artists and the troubled nature of

Seagull (Chekhov Anton)(Paperback / softback)

what do you think he does?- He destroys her.A story about how we make stories, a story about unrequited love, The Seagull is one of the great plays of the modern