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The Willow and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Stephen Pimenoff
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Old Arkhip sits every day by the roots of a wizened, hunchbacked
willow, fishing and exchanging whispered stories with the ancient
tree. One of these takes Arkhip three decades back in time, to a
quiet day in early spring when a strange encounter shook him
momentarily from the rural bliss in which he lived, catapulting him
into a world of crime, corruption, violence and murder. A
quintessential example of Chekhov’s artistry, ‘The Willow’ is
here accompanied by thirty-two other short stories – some of them
never or rarely translated into English – which are
representative of the three main phases of the author’s career:
the short, light-hearted pieces of the late 1880s, the darker, more
pessimistic tales of his maturity and the psychologically nuanced
stories he wrote towards the end of his life. Taken together, this
collection is further proof of Chekhov’s unparalleled skills as a
practitioner of the short-story genre.
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'.
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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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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The Complete Short Novels (Hardcover)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear; Introduction by Richard Pevear
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Anton Chekhov's short novels are 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.
Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story,
also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. "The
Steppe-the most lyrical of the five-is an account of a
nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the
steppe of southern Russia to enroll in a distant school. "The Duel
sets two decadent figures-a fanatical rationalist and a man of
literary sensibility-on a collision course that ends in a series of
surprising reversals. In "The Story of an Unknown Man, a political
radical plans to spy on an important official by serving as valet
to his son, however, as he gradually becomes involved as a silent
witness in the intimate life of his young employer, he finds that
his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in
startling ways. "Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies
in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant,
engaging time as a narrative element in a way unusual in Chekhov's
fiction. In "My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position
for a life of manual labor, and the resulting conflict between the
moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human
nauture culminates in an apocalyptic vision that is unique in
Chekhov's work.
In these five short novels, Chekhov's masterful storytelling and
his profound understanding of human nature are brilliantly evinced.
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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.
The Undiscovered Chekhov gives us, in rich abundance, a new
Chekhov. Peter Constantine's historic collection presents 38 new
stories and with them a fresh interpretation of the Russian master.
In contrast to the brooding representative of a dying century we
have seen over and over, here is Chekhov's work from the 1880s,
when Chekhov was in his twenties and his writing was sharp, witty
and innovative.
Many of the stories in The Undiscovered Chekhov reveal Chekhov as a
keen modernist. Emphasizing impressions and the juxtaposition of
incongruent elements, instead of the straight narrative his readers
were used to, these stories upturned many of the assumptions of
storytelling of the period.
Here is "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town," written as a series of
telegrams, beginning with "Have been drinking to Sarah's health all
week Enchanting She actually dies standing up ..." In
"Confession...," a thirty-nine year old bachelor recounts some of
the fifteen times chance foiled his marriage plans. In "How I Came
to be Lawfully Wed," a couple reminisces about the day they vowed
to resist their parents' plans that they should marry. And in the
more familiarly Chekhovian "Autumn," an alcoholic landowner fallen
low and a peasant from his village meet far from home in a sad and
haunting reunion in which the action of the story is far less
important than the powerful impression it leaves with the reader
that each man must live his life and has his reasons.
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Ivanov (Paperback)
Anton Chekhov; Translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
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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
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
Chekhov's early tragedy, translated and introduced by Stephen
Mulrine. Arkadina, a famous actress, and her lover, a famous
novelist, are spending the summer on her country estate, but their
glamorous presence proves fatally disruptive to the lives of all
those present, especially her son, Konstantin and Nina, the girl he
loves. Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull was first staged at the
Alexandrinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in October 1896. This
translation by Stephen Mulrine, published in the Nick Hern Books
Drama Classics series, was first staged by English Touring Theatre
in 1997.
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 their estate is
about to be auctioned off. Lopakhin, a local merchant, presents
numerous options to save it, including cutting down their prized
cherry orchard. But the family is stricken with denial. "The Cherry
Orchard" charts the precipitous descent of a wealthy family and in
the process creates a bold meditation on social change and
bourgeois materialism.
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The kiss (Paperback)
Gabriela Guzman; Anton Chekhov
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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.
It is New Year's Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a
landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror.
Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is
spellbound as the reflection in the looking glass dissolves into a
sea of grey mist, in which she starts to discern the beloved
features of her fiance. As in a diorama, the scene keeps changing,
and to the early snapshots of joyful marital life succeed other,
more sinister images of care, sickness and bereavement, casting a
long shadow onto the girl's future. With 'The Looking Glass'
Chekhov captured the very essence of the Russian soul. This short
story, along with the others included in this collection,
demonstrates why he is considered the absolute master of the genre.
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