Anton Chekhov was probably the least statuesque major Russian writer of his generation. He wrote short stories rather than novels, lived modestly, and rarely boomed out complicated philosophical ideas ...

THAT WORTHLESS FELLOW PLATONOV— Anton Chekhov; translated by John Gournos—Button ($2.50). Anton Chekhov, prince of Russian short-story writers, prince of Russian playwrights, wrote one play that has ...

Anton Chekhov’s life is well documented: When he died of consumption in 1904 at age 44, he was honored all over the world. His short stories, plays and journalism are still upheld as models of humane ...

One sign that an author has gained recognition in popular culture is when his name has become an adjective: Homeric tales, Kafkaesque predicaments, Dickensian living conditions. Once, Anton Chekhov's ...

Not everyone who loves Anton Chekhov for his short stories necessarily loves his plays. When Chekhov's literary hero Leo Tolstoy saw one of his younger friend's new dramas in the late 1890s, Tolstoy ...

“There is still no satisfactory book on Anton Chekhov,” wrote the great Irish storyteller Frank O’Connor in 1963, and in 1988 the statement remains true, despite three distinguished recent attempts to ...

What one of the world's greatest dramatists had to say about the theater. Collected here in Stephen Mulrine's vivid translations, these writings reveal Anton Chekhov's many and varied insights into ...