This exciting anthology of one-act plays includes classics such as Anton Chekhov s The Boor and Jo... more

THREE o clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking in at my windows and caressingly winki... more

IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitri... more

ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch... more

IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitri... more

OLENKA, the daughter of the retired collegiate assessor, Plemyanniakov, was sitting in her back porc... more

A HOSPITAL assistant, called Yergunov, an empty-headed fellow, known throughout the district as a gr... more

GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping... more

ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch... more

THREE o clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking in at my windows and caressingly winki... more

FYODOR LUKITCH SYSOEV, the master of the factory school maintained at the expense of the firm of Kul... more

Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revived... more

The Letters of the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revived... more

Colonial Trinidad 1939. Three sisters endure a mundane but privileged life in the capital, Port of S... more

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The Lady with the Dog: the story of an adulterous affair between a Russian banker and a young lady h... more

Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov’s masterp... more

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Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov s tragi-comedy -... more

CONTENTS The Wife Difficult People The Grasshopper A Dreary Story The Privy Councillor The Man in a ... more

Ivanov, a driving force in local government and a visionary landowner, feels burnt out at thirty-fiv... more

Including "The Duel," "Ward No. 6," "A Woman’s Kingdom," "Three Years," "My Life," "Peasants," and "... more

From the translator s note when this book was originally published in 1921: The contents of this vo... more

The present volume makes available the inimitable Notebook of Anton Chekhov as well as those passage... more

’Frayn’s translation, which strikes me as splendidly lucid and alive . . . will be acted again and a... more

Treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragic melodrama.... more

All the farces of Russia s greatest dramatist are rendered here in the classic lively translations w... more

From the introduction to The Unknown Chekhov: At least a dozen years were to pass [after Anton Chekh... more

Anton Chekhov has long been regarded as the master of the Russian short story and one of the leading... more

This translation of Checkov s tragi-comic play - perhaps his most popular - is being published to co... more

Uncle Vanya has been described as the least pleasant and most bitter of Chekhov s plays - yet the di... more

Chekhov s Dama s sobachkoy (1899) is perhaps the most celebrated example of his shorter prose and on... more

Chayka (1896) is the first of Anton Chekhov s four celebrated plays. While its first performance was... more

Many of Chekhov’s short stories, translated into English during the early years of the 20th century,... more

1 The Electromagnetic Program for the Synthesis of Physics.- 2 The General Theory of Relativity: The... more

Chekov’s great tragicomic eulogy for a passing way of life is superbly adapted to make a powerful an... more

Wonderfully fresh and affecting. - Ben Brantley, New York Times This lucid interpretation rewards ... more

ChekhovUs treatment of theatre and love against the background of a magical lake attempts to define ... more

This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which en... more

Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov’s masterp... more

Celebrating a decade of progress in the fast developing field of management, spirituality and religi... more

Anton Chekhov The Major Plays Ivanov * The Sea Gull * Uncle Vanya * The Three Sisters * The Cherry O... more

In ’The Lady with the Little Dog’ a man and a woman indulge in an affair that could ruin both their ... more

Masterfully written tales by one of the greatest practitioners of the form. Stories include "The Bla... more

This book examines the issues of ensuring anti-terrorist security of an aviation enterprise, provide... more

Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long en... more

In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook a... more

If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not ju... more