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The essential edition of the greatest stories by the Russian master
of the form Chekhov was without doubt one of the greatest observers
of human nature in all its untidy complexity. His short stories,
written throughout his life and newly translated for this essential
collection, are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. Here are tales
offering a glimpse of beauty, the memory of a mistaken kiss,
daydreams of adultery, a lifetime of marital neglect, the frailty
of life, the inevitability of death, and the hilarious pomposity of
ordinary men and women. They range from the lighthearted comic
tales of his early years to some of the most achingly profound
stories ever composed.
Weird isn't it. Years of the same old thing and then suddenly,
without warning, tomorrow is a stranger. An old starship. Far from
Earth. Prema Ramesh, the ship's grieving commander, seeks solace in
the sacred mission of her ancestors: leading the remnants of
humanity towards the Destination. A bountiful world on which their
descendants will one day thrive. But after centuries in the void,
the creaking vessel is falling apart, its crew is suffering. What
good is a promised paradise when the present is unbearable? So when
rumour spreads of another viable, much closer planet, the crew
begin to dream of different possibilities. It could all end now. A
new future beckons. But first the old structures must crumble. They
won't fall without a fight. A playful adaptation of Chekhov's
tragicomic final work. Joy in the infinite, loss on a galactic
scale, small lives and great ambitions adrift in the cosmos. This
edition is published to coincide with the world premiere at the
Yard Theatre, London, in September 2022. A The Yard Theatre, ETT
and HOME Manchester production, co-commissioned by The Yard Theatre
and ETT.
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About Love (Hardcover)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Ronald Wilks
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. Widely considered to be one of
greatest ever writers of the form, Anton Chekhov's short stories
offer unforgettable character, crystalline expression, and deep,
powerful mystery. Collected here are five of his very best tales,
'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'The House with the Mezzanine', and
the trilogy of stories, 'The Man in the Case', 'Gooseberries' and
'About Love'.
Chekhov's iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold
new adaptation. Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil
War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their
father. Months before, two ruthless military coups plunged the
country into chaos. Fuelled by foreign intervention, the conflict
encroaches on their provincial village, and the sisters long to
return to their former home in Lagos. Following his smash-hit
Barber Shop Chronicles, Inua Ellams returns to the National Theatre
with this heartbreaking retelling of Chekhov's classic play.
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The Seagull
Anton Chekhov; Adapted by Anya Reiss
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We need the theatre, couldn’t, couldn’t do without it. Could
we? A successful actress visits her brother’s isolated estate far
from the city, throwing the frustrated residents unfulfilled
ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress with a
self-penned play, putting much more than his pride at stake, others
dream of fame, love and the ability to change their past.
Chekhov’s darkly comic masterpiece is reignited for the 21st
century by one of the most exciting new voices in British Theatre,
Anya Reiss, Winner of the Most Promising Playwright at both the
Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle awards. This updated and
revised edition was published following the West End production
directed by Jamie Lloyd in 2022.
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Chekhov on Theatre (Paperback)
Anton Chekhov; Compiled by Jutta Hercher, Peter Urban; Translated by Stephen Mulrine
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Chekhov started writing about theatre - in newspaper articles and
in his own letters - even before he began writing plays. Later he
wrote in detail about these to his wife and leading actress Olga
Knipper, and to the two directors of the Moscow Art Theatre,
Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko. Collected here in Stephen
Mulrine's vivid translations, these writings reveal Chekhov's many
and varied insights into the way theatre works - and how best to
realise his own intentions as a theatre writer.
I don't know what it is I'm going to do but I'm going to do
something. I'm going to be someone. I am! I'm sick of just being
me. I'm going to be someone else. Someone better. I'm going to make
a difference. Three sisters, Orla, Marianne and Erin, dream of
escaping their tedious suburban lives for a fresh start in America.
It is Erin's eighteenth birthday and, as the sun shines and guests
assemble, everything for a fleeting moment feels possible.
Relocated from a Russian provincial town in 1900 to East Belfast in
the 1990s, Lucy Caldwell's new version of Chekhov's Three Sisters
opened at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in October 2016.
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Uncle Vanya (Paperback, Main)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Christopher Hampton
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Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya in a new version by Christopher
Hampton. This version will be first staged at the Vaudeville
Theatre, London, on 25 October 2012 and run until 16 February 2013.
'It's often said that the best of the Chekhov plays is the one
you've seen most recently. Uncle Vanya doesn't have a suicide, like
The Seagull, or an adulterous couple and a duel more or less
indistinguishable from murder, like Three Sisters; nor does it seem
to announce the end of an era, like The Cherry Orchard: all it has
is a series of ludicrously bungled attempts at murder and suicide
and adultery. Perhaps these failures are what makes it feel the
saddest and most truthful of these great tragi-comedies, in which,
possibly unique to all drama, not a single word seems redundant or
out of place.' - From the author's introduction.
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Ivanov (Paperback, Main)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Tom Stoppard
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Only a year ago, the landowner Nikolai Ivanov was full of energy
and optimism, in love with his wife and working hard. Now, for no
reason he can understand, Ivanov is overcome with inertia and
self-disgust. His wife is dying and he feels nothing. He is
drowning in debt and despair, and he does nothing. Is it him? Is it
Russia? And is the possibility of happiness with the young woman
who loves him just a cruel illusion? Ivanov was the 27-year-old
Chekhov's shot at despatching the 'superfluous man' of Russian
literature, and in surrounding him with a brilliantly drawn set of
provincial types he created some of the best comedy he was ever to
write. Ivanov in this version was first presented by the Donmar
Warehouse at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, on 12 September 2008.
"I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they
harm, that's what I'd like to know!' From the supreme artist of the
short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucinations,
hysterical obsession and moral decay. One of 46 new books in the
bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first
ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of
the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the
world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence,
heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
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Selected Stories (Paperback, New edition)
Anton Chekhov; Introduction by Joe Andrew; Notes by Joe Andrew; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian
Literature, Keele University. 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 doctor-turned-writer displays compassion for human
suffering and misfortune, but is always able to see the comical,
even farcical aspects of the human condition. Chekhov sees and
depicts life with unwavering honesty and truthfulness, although a
clear moral sense can be detected beneath his apparent objectivity.
Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty
stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were
personally chosen by Richard Ford--an accomplished storyteller in
his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces--"The Kiss,"
"The Darling," and "The Lady with the Dog"--as well as several
brilliant lesser-known tales such as "A Blunder," "Hush ," and
"Champagne." These stories, ordered from 1886 to 1899, are drawn
from Chekhov's most fruitful years as a short-story writer. A truly
balanced selection, they exhibit the qualities that make Chekhov
one of the greatest fiction writers of all time: his gift for
detail, dialogue, and humor; his emotional perception and
compassion; and his understanding that life's most important
moments are often the most overlooked.
"The reason we like Chekhov so much, now at our century's end,"
writes Ford in his perceptive introduction, "is because his stories
from the last century's end feel so modern to us, are so much of
our own time and mind." Exquisitely translated by the renowned
Constance Garnett, these stories present a wonderful opportunity to
introduce yourself--or become reaquainted with--an artist whose
genius and influence only increase with every passing
generation.
The Cherry Orchard is regularly performed in theatres today, with
new productions in London, Sydney and New York in the last few
years.
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Fifty-Two Stories (Paperback)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
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The Complete Plays (Paperback)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Laurence Senelick
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This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete
edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history.
Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works
interpreted and adapted internationally and beloved for their
brilliant wit and understanding of the human condition.This volume
contains work never previously translated, including the newly
discovered farce The Power of Hypnotism, the first version of
Ivanov, Chekhov's early humorous dialogues, and a description of
lost plays and those Chekhov intended to write but never did.
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The kiss (Paperback)
Gabriela Guzman; Anton Chekhov
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A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition Along with
Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as
one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern
drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth century Russia,
Uncle Vanya is in part a study of the enervation of Russian
middle-class provincial life. The major dynamics between the
characters themselves are centred on two obsessive love affairs
that lead nowhere and a flirtation that brings disaster. Mixing the
tragic and the absurd and dealing with a form that allows for
ambiguity and contradiction, Uncle Vanya has been deemed "the first
modernist play". (David Lan) "It is the element of might-have-been
in Chekhov's characters that makes their sense of waste so tragic
...I know of no more moving climax in world drama." Guardian
Definitive translation by acclaimed playwright Michael FraynMethuen
Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of
plays. Contains the complete text of the play, the volume contains
a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction
giving the background to the play; a discussion of various
interpretations; and notes on individual words and phrases in the
text
This Norton Critical Edition includes five of Chekhov s major plays
Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry
Orchard and three early one-act farces that inform his later work
The Bear, The Wedding, and The Celebration. Laurence Senelick s
masterful translations closely preserve Chekhov s singular style
his abundant jokes and literary allusions and his careful use of
phrase repetition to bind the plays together. "Letters" is the
largest collection of Chekhov s commentary on his plays ever to
appear in an English-language edition. "Criticism" includes eleven
essays by leading European and Russian Chekhov scholars, most
appearing in English for the first time, including those by Boris
Zingerman, Maria Deppermann, and Lev Shestor. This volume also
provides discussion of Chekhov s plays by some of the twentieth
century s great directors, including Konstantin Stanislavsky, Peter
Brook, and Mark Rozovsky. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography
are also included."
'Frayn's translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and
alive ...will be acted again and again' New Statesman In Chekhov's
tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is
torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society in
which they live. Their estate is hopelessly in debt: urged to cut
down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday
cottages, they struggle to act decisively. Originally published to
coincide with Peter Hall's National Theatre production in 1978,
this edition features the revised translation staged by Sam Mendes
at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in 1989, starring Judi Dench and
Ronald Pickup. Commentary and notes by Nick Worrall
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Fifty-Two Stories (Paperback)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
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'This beautifully produced edition collects, in chronological
order, fifty-two of Anton Chekhov's short stories written between
1883 and 1898. It is a 'full deck', intended to reflect the
diversity and inventiveness of the author's lesser-known fiction
... compelling and even graceful' The Times Literary Supplement A
masterfully rendered volume of Chekhov's stories from award-winning
translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Chekhov's genius
left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote,
but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their superb
renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories. This volume, which spans
the full arc of Chekhov's career and includes a number of tales
translated into English for the first time, reveals the
extraordinary variety of his work. Ranging from the farcically
comic to the darkly complex, the stories are populated by a
remarkable range of characters who come from all parts of Russia,
all walks of life, and who, taken together, have democratized the
short story. This is a collection that promises profound delight.
'The premier Russian-to-English translators of the era' The New
Yorker 'The reinventors of the classic Russian novel for our times'
PEN/Book of the Month Translation Prize Citation
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The Seagull (Paperback, Main)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Christopher Hampton
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I know now, Kostya, I understand that in our work - doesn't matter
whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or
glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability
to endure. The Seagull is one of the great plays about writing. It
superbly captures the struggle for new forms, the frustrations and
fulfilments of putting words on a page. Chekhov, in his first major
play, staged a vital argument about the theatre which still
resonates today. Christopher Hampton's new version of this classic,
directed by Ian Rickson in his last production as Artistic Director
of the Royal Court Theatre, London, premiered in January 2007.
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 sometimes
overshadowed his achievements in prose, the importance of Chekhov's
stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors.
Their themes--alienation, the absurdity and tragedy of human
existence--have as much relevance today as when they were written,
and these superb new translations capture their modernist spirit.
Elusive and subtle, spare and unadorned, the stories in this
selection are among Chekhov's most poignant and lyrical. The book
includes well-known pieces such as "The Lady with the Little Dog,"
as well as less familiar work like "Gusev," inspired by Chekhov's
travels in the Far East, and "Rothschild's Violin," a haunting and
darkly humorous tale about death and loss. The stories are arranged
chronologically to show the evolution of Chekhov's art.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
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scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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