Anton Chekhov
1) The Seagull
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Love triangles and unfulfilled dreams abound at a Russian country estate in this nineteenth-century dark comedy.
Drama is unfolding on a stage at the country estate of ailing ex-civil servant Pyotr Sorin. His nephew Konstantin Treplev is producing his new play in Sorin's garden with aspiring actress Nina. In the audience are Konstantin's mother, successful actress Irina Arkadina, and her lover, famous writer Boris Trigorin. Konstantin is hoping to...
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Classic tales of changing lives and loves from one of Russia's greatest playwrights, a master of the modern short story.
Morality, philosophy, and science merge in "The Duel," the classic tale of transformation in which educated Russian aristocrat Ivan Andreitch Laevsky falls in love with the married Nadya Fyodorovna and runs off to the Black Sea with her. As their passion wanes, Nadya turns to other men for comfort, while Ivan indulges in heavy...
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Max Bollinger
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2010
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A collection of Short Stories by Anton Chekhov featuring A Tragic Actor, In A Strange Land, Oh The Public, The Looking Glass, Her Husband and Overdoing It. These stories are small masterpieces. The scene is set quickly and within a few sentences the story line is underway. But all seem to contain an element of the unexpected.
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Max Bollinger
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2010
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Chekhov's trilogy of interlinked stories about Truth, Freedom and Love. First published in 1898 in Russian and released as separate stories. This title, based on translations by Constance Garnett with revision and adaptation by Max Bollinger follows Chekhov's original vision by bringing the three stories together once again.
5) Uncle Vanya
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One of the most important dramatic works from the acclaimed Russian playwright and "father of the modern dysfunctional family comedy" (Hyde Park Herald).
A classic four-act romantic tragedy, Uncle Vanya is essentially a reworking of an earlier Chekhov play, The Wood Demon. It tells the story of a retired university professor and his extended middle-class family. When the professor unexpectedly announces he is about to sell his country estate, scheming...
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The highly acclaimed Russian classic of twentieth-century theatre about a wealthy family unable to let go of the past or face the future.
At the turn of the century, Russia is undergoing massive changes. Feudalism has ended, the middle class is growing, and the aristocracy are uncertain of their future...
The cherry orchard on the Ranevskaya grounds is known throughout the country for its beauty, but it now sits on the brink of ruin. The entire estate...
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Ivan Chervyakov, a petty government official, while in the theatre, sneezes right upon the head of a man sitting in front of him, who happens to be a high-ranking government official. He spends the evening and the next day fawning before his sneeze victim trying to extract forgiveness, but what he succeeds instead is only bringing out a fit of rage in him. Shocked, Chervyakov returns home to lie there and die, due to the sheer stress of having endured...
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Uno de los más conocidos e importantes de la literatura universal y una de las manifestaciones más brillantes del espíritu ruso. Esta historia no cuenta un acontecimiento extraordinario, los protagonistas llevan una vida corriente, se podría decir que incluso aburrida. El relato es un pequeño ensayo sobre cómo surge el amor entre dos personas, Anna y Gúrov, y su pasión los transforma. El sexo está muy presente en toda la narración, aunque...
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Una joven muere, de modo misterioso, durante una partida de caza. El hecho tiene lugar en la propiedad del conde Alekséi Karnéiev, hombre de mala reputación. Un magistrado es llamado para investigar; pronto la investigación se vuelve más y más tortuosa, a medida que los presentes se convierten en sospechosos. Para complicar el caso, la víctima parece haber mantenido relaciones turbias con el conde, con su propio marido anciano y hasta con el...
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A classic collection of tales by the acclaimed Russian playwright and author universally recognized as a master of the modern short story.
In "The Bet," partygoers strike up a debate regarding the humanity of capital punishment versus life imprisonment, which causes a two-million-ruble wager to be struck between a lawyer and a banker. The lawyer, arguing in favor of life imprisonment, agrees to spend fifteen years in total isolation in a guest room...
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A Literary Classic by ANTON CHEKHOV.
The Darling and Other Stories by RUSSIAN author ANTON CHEKHOV is a collection of short stories first published in 1916 in the UNITED KINGDOM. The title story of this collection, "The Darling," tells the sad story of a woman who is generous to all yet trapped in a cycle of co-dependency.
Sneak Peak
'Olenka listened to Kukin...
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Experience life and hardships in turn-of-the-century Russia with this collection of provocative stories by one of the greatest writers of all time.
Anton Chekhov captures life in late-nineteenth-century Russia with these evocative tales. For example, in "The Schoolmistress," a hard-working, underpaid schoolteacher contemplates dating a man she knows is terrible for her. In "A Nervous Breakdown," an idealistic young law student cannot handle what...
13) Drei Schwestern
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Drei Schwestern ist ein am 31. Januar 1901 in Moskau uraufgeführtes Drama von Anton Tschechow.
Seit elf Jahren leben Irina, Mascha, Olga Prosorow und ihr Bruder Andrej in der Provinzstadt / Gouvernementsstadt fern von Moskau, woher sie stammen und wohin sie wieder zurück möchten. Durch ihren Vater, einen Brigadegeneral, waren sie hierher verschlagen worden. Doch der Vater ist jetzt tot. Der Bruder Andrej hätte der Familie durch eine akademischen...
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THE evening service was being celebrated on the eve of Palm Sunday in the Old Petrovsky Convent. When they began distributing the palm it was close upon ten o'clock, the candles were burning dimly, the wicks wanted snuffing; it was all in a sort of mist. In the twilight of the church the crowd seemed heaving like the sea, and to Bishop Pyotr, who had been unwell for the last three days, it seemed that all the faces–old and young, men's and women's–were...
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A Literary Classic by ANTON CHEKHOV.
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by RUSSIAN author ANTON CHEKHOV is a collection of short stories first published in 1890 in RUSSIA. The title story of this collection, "The Horse-Stealers," tells of an unfortunate hospital assistant, Yergunov, whose horse is stolen by a couple of guys he met in a tavern.
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AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband's name-day was being celebrated, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talking incessantly, the clatter of the crockery, the stupidity of the servants, the long intervals between the courses, and the stays she had put on to conceal her condition from the visitors, wearied her to exhaustion. She longed to get away from the house,...
17) About Love
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Prospekt LLC
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2011
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Russian
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When you love, then wealth is are opened in front of you. ? lot of affection, tenderness sometimes hard to believe that you know how to love.
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Dover Publications
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2012
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One of the foremost dramatists of the 19th century, Russian author Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) created a body of work noted for its realistic dialogue and keen insights into human relationships. This collection of five one-act plays — in the celebrated Constance Garnett translations — shows Chekhov at his witty best.
The Anniversary takes a lively look behind the frenetic scenes at a bank: a man overburdened with errands
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Max Bollinger
Pub. Date
2010
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A collection of Chekhov's short stories featuring: Talent, Anyuta, The Helpmate, Ivan Matveyitch, Polinka. These stories are rich in characterisation and represent brilliantly observed slices of life. They don't come to an end, they just peter out inconclusively leaving you to draw your own conclusions.
20) The Big Book of Christmas: 250+ Vintage Christmas Stories, Carols, Novellas, Poems by 120+ Authors
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The Masterpieces
Pub. Date
2019
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This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!
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