Chekhov; a biography,
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1970, c1962
Chicago : University of Chicago Press [1970, ©1962] Chicago, [1970, c1962] Chicago : 1970 |
| Series: | Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill
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Table of Contents:
- Part I : Childhood, boyhood, and youth, 1860-1886
- "Tea, sugar, coffee, and other groceries"
- "Before men you must be aware of your own worth"
- "Father Antosha"
- Aesculapius versus Apollo
- Chekhov and the humorous magazines
- "All my hopes lie entirely in the future"
- Part II : First fame as a writer, 1886-1889
- "Schiller Shakespearovich Goethe"
- "My holy of holies ... is absolute freedom"
- "There is a sort of stagnation in my soul"
- Part III : Frustration, travel, literary maturity, 1889-1892
- "Mania sachalinosa"
- "Landowner A. Chekhov"
- Part IV : The Melikhovo period, 1892-1898
- "Drive the poets and fiction writers into the country"
- "For the lonely man, the desert is everywhere"
- "Twice rejected"
- "Man will become better only when you make him see what he is like"
- "A work of art should express a great idea"
- "I'll go with the spring freshets"
- "To be doctored ... is a form of the most repulsive egoism"
- Part V : The Yalta period begins, 1898-1900
- "As I grow older, the pulse of life in me beats faster ..."
- "I have become a 'Marxist'"
- "Hello, last page of my life, great actress of the Russian land"
- "My dear enchanting actress"
- Part VI : Marriage and death, 1901-1904
- "What do you know, I going to get married"
- "A wife who, like the moon, will not appear in my sky every day"
- "We are both incomplete people"
- "To Moscow, to Moscow"
- "Ich sterbe."