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The Steppe and Other Stories by Ronald (TRN) Anton Pavlovich; Hingley Chekhov
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Story of a Nobody by Anton Chekhov; Hugh Aplin (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
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 impendin ...Show more
Three Years by Anton Chekhov; Hugh Aplin (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: 101 Pages Ser.
On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father's Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her. Although she does not reciprocate his feelings, she agrees to marry him ...Show more
Uncle Vanya by Conor McPherson (Adapted by); Anton Chekhov
Category: Classics | Series: NHB Classic Plays Ser.
In the heat of summer, Sonya and her Uncle Vanya while away their days on a crumbling estate deep in the countryside, visited occasionally by the only local doctor Astrov. However, when Sonya's father, Professor Serebryakov, suddenly returns with his restless, alluring, new wife, declaring his intention ...Show more
Uncle Vanya (plays, playscript) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Nick Hern Books/Drama Classics
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov + Janet Malcolm (Contribution by)
Category: Classics
A young man tries to figure out the best way to live. A young woman struggles to assert herself within a regrettable marriage. A doctor attempts to befriend his most interesting patient. This riverrun edition presents a selection of Chekhov's longer stories - novellas, effectively - in Constance Garnett ...Show more
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 by Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
"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. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with notes by Ronald Wilks, and an introduction by J. Douglas Clayton. These stories ...Show more
Ward Number Six and Other Stories by Ronald (TRN) Anton Pavlovich; Hingley Chekhov
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Taken from The Oxford Chekhov, the stories in this collection include "The Butterfly," "Ariadne," "A Dreary Story," "Neighbours," "An Anonymous Story," and "Doctor Startsev," as well as the title story. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum ...Show more
Young Chekhov: Platonov; Ivanov; The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Category: Accessories
Young Chekhov contains a trilogy of plays by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov, written as he emerged as the greatest playwright of the late nineteenth century. The three works, Platanov, Ivanov and The Seagull, in contemporary adaptations by David Hare, will be staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre ...Show more