The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
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Author:
Anton Chekhov
Category:
Classics
ISBN:
9781455392483
Publisher:
PublishDrive Inc (Seltzer Books)
File Size:
0.74 MB
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Synopsis
This collection includes: THE LADY WITH THE DOG, A DOCTORS VISIT, AN UPHEAVAL, IONITCH, THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY, THE BLACK MONK, VOLODYA, AN ANONYMOUS STORY, and THE HUSBAND. According to Wikipedia: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: Medicine is my lawful wife, he once said, and literature is my mistress. Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavskis Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov’s last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a special challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a theatre of mood and a submerged life in the text. Chekhov had at first written stories only for the money, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.
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