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Антон Павлович Чехов • Рассказы. Повести. 1888—1891 (Russian Edition)
Chekhov and Tolstoy,
Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Chekhov, a practicing doctor during his short but prolific career as a playwright and master of short fiction, famously said that medicine was his wife and literature was his mistress.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
The story has made us expect this, because, so far, we have not seen Olenka consider and then reject someone—whomever Chekhov introduced, she loved. But Chekhov asks (is alert to the value of asking), “Okay, but what if she doesn’t settle for Trot?” This sort of narrative alertness is one of Chekhov’s prime gifts. That is, he’s alert to the full po
... See moreGeorge Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
О чем покойник спрашивал, зачем он умер или зачем жил, об этом один бог ведает.
Николай Васильевич Гоголь • Мертвые души (Том первый) (Russian Edition)
But Chekhov chose to make Marya a person unhappy because of the monotony of her life. Out of the mist of every-story-that-could-possibly-be, a particular woman has started to emerge.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Quatro peças: A gaivota, Tio Vânia, Três irmãs e O jardim das cerejeiras (Portuguese Edition)
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writing it in a hotel felt to Chekhov, as he put it, “like sewing on someone else’s machine.”