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  Anton Chekhov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, a small provincial port on the Sea of Azov, in southern Russia on January 29, 1860.
Anton attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog (1866-1868), and at the age of eight he was sent to the Taganrog Gymnasium for boys, where he proved an average pupil.
Chekhov qualified as a physician in 1884, but continued writing for weekly periodicals and in 1885 began submitting to the Peterburgskaya Gazeta ("The Petersburg Gazette") longer works of a more somber nature; these were rejected by Leykin.
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 Anton Chekhov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов) (January 29 1860 (Jan. 17 O.S) in Taganrog, Russia – July 14 or July 15 (July 1 or 2) 1904 in Badenweiler, Germany) was a major Russian playwright and perhaps the foremost modern writer of the short story.
Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, a small provincial port on the Sea of Azov, in southern Russia.
Chekhov qualified as a physician in 1884, but continued writing for weekly periodicals and in 1885 began submitting to the Petersburgskaya Gazeta ("The Petersburg Gazette") longer works of more somber nature which were rejected by Leykin.
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 Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Chekhov’s first large collection, Motley Stories (1886), brought him critical respect; it was followed by the collections At Twilight (1887) and Stories (1888), from which “The Steppe” earned him the Pushkin Prize.
Chekhov’s many hundreds of stories concern human folly, the tragedy of trivialities, and the oppression of banality.
In his plays, too, Chekhov emphasizes character and mood; his plots describe the desolation of lonely people and the misunderstandings that accrue from self-absorption and desperation.
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 Anton Chekhov - Biography and Works
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, Ukraine on January 17th in the year 1860.
Chekhov attended a school for Greek boys in his hometown from 1867-1868 and later he attended the local grammar school from 1868-1876 when his father went bankrupt and moved the family to Moscow.
Chekhov's medical and science experience is evident in much of his work as evidenced by the apathy many of his characters show towards tragic events.
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 Anton Chekhov
Chekhov combined a naturalistic method with a philosophic mind and a humanitarian gentleness of temper.
Especially with Chekhov does one feel the presence of an understanding heart; nothing escapes his observation, yet all is rendered with sympathy and pity.
Anton Chekhov was born at Taganrog, Russia, in 1860.
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 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in Tanarog, Russia, near the Sea of Azov, on January 17, 1860.
Chekhov himself was the grandson of a serf, and the overturning of this older social order plays a central role in many of his writings.
Chekhov was quoted as saying that medicine was his lawful wife and literature was his mistress, and he remained devoted to his two professions throughout his life.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Anton Chekhov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
But Chekhov's modesty is much more interesting than the vanity of the shy, it is the assertion of an existential stance – like Ivanov, the anti-hero of his first play, he distrusts the knowing of others that depends upon types and stereotypes.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29 January (New Style), 1860, in Taganrog, a small port on the Sea of Azov, in southern Russia.
As the son of a grocer and grandson of a serf, Chekhov was a first-generation intellectual.
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 Anton Chekhov
Chekhov portrayed often life in the Russian small towns, where tragic events occur in a minor key, as a part of everyday life.
Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, Ukraine, as the son of a grocer and grandson of a serf who had bought his freedom in 1841.
Usually in Chekhov's dramas surprise and tension are not key elements, the dramatic movement is subdued, his characters do not fight, they endure their fate with patience.
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 Anton Chekhov Biography
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, considered the father of the modern short story and of the modern play, was born, the third of six children, in the Russian seaport town of Taganrog, near the Black Sea.
Chekhov the landowner was on good terms with the local peasants, treating their medical problems free of charge, paying for his own dispensary, financing and overseeing the building of schools, and organizing measures against the cholera epidemics of 1892 and 1893.
Chekhov's longest piece by far, it was hailed by liberals as a signal contribution to the movement for prison reform.
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 Dana Gioia Online - Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov's late stories mark a pivotal moment in European fiction–the point where nineteenth-century realist conventions of the short story begin their transformation into the modern form.
As the late Rufus Matthewson once observed, Chekhov fully articulated the dominant form of twentieth century short fiction: "the casual telling of a nuclear experience in an ordinary life, rendered with immediate and telling detail." Chekhov was the first author to consciously explore and perfect this literary method in his vast output of short stories.
Chekhov presents Gurov in a mostly unfavorable light emphasizing his manipulation, misogyny, and amorality, and yet the author refuses to simplify his protagonist into a stock villain.
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 Anton Chekhov
The young Chekhov was soon impressed into the services of the large, poverty-stricken family, and he spoke regretfully in after years of his hard-worked childhood.
Chekhov himself was far from pleased with what he called his "literary abortion," and rewrote it before it was produced again in St. Petersburg.
Chekhov's delicate and elusive descriptive power did not lend itself to painting on a large canvas, and his strange little tragi-comedies of Russian life, his "Tedious Tales," as he called them, were always to remain his masterpieces.
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 Chekhov, Tsjechov,Tsjechow, Tschechow
Anton Chekhov was born the son of a grocer and grandson of a serf in Taganrog in 1860.
Chekhov's first career was that of a writer of humorous material and he began contributing to minor magazines under the pen name of Antosha Chekhonte in 1880.
The five-year friendship and marriage of Anton Chekhov and the actress Olga Knipper, who created many of the central female roles in his plays, is one of the most extraordinary love stories in the theatre.
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 Letters of Anton Chekhov (1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chekhov’s father started life as a slave, but the son of this slave was even more sensitive to the Arts, more innately civilized and in love with the things of the mind than the son of the slaveowner.
One of Anton’s favourite improvisations was a scene in which the Governor of the town attended church parade at a festival and stood in the centre of the church, on a rug surrounded by foreign consuls.
Chekhov’s mother did her utmost to load the tables with dainties; his father with a mysterious air would produce various specially prepared cordials and liqueurs from some hidden recess; and then it seemed that Melihovo had something of its own, peculiar to it, which could be found in no other country estate.
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 Anton Chekhov at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
One critic says of Chekhov that he is no moralist—he simply says “you live badly, ladies and gentlemen,” but his smile has the indulgence of a very wise man.
Although Chekhov is still chiefly known for his plays, critical opinion shows signs of establishing the stories—and particularly those that were written after 1888—as an even more significant and creative literary achievement.
The work by British playwright Frayn is often compared to that of Anton Chekhov for its focus on humorous family situations and its insights into society.
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 Script Directory Chekhov Pages
In Anton Chekhov, Rayfield does not attempt to tidy up a messily complex psyche or to downplay the faults that were as intrinsic to Chekhov's genius as were his merits.
No one understood as clearly and finely as Anton Chekhov, the tragedy of life's trivialities, no one before him showed men with such merciless truth the terrible and shameful picture of their life in the dim chaos of bourgeois every-day existence.
Reading Anton Chekhov's stories, one feels oneself in a melancholy day of late autumn, when the air is transparent and the outline of naked trees, narrow houses, grayish people, is sharp.
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 Anton Chekhov Index
Anton Chekhov - A biography of the Russian dramatist.
Anton Chekhov: Monologues - A collection of monologues by the Russian dramatist.
Anton Chekhov Quotes - An index of quotes attributed to Chekhov.
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 Emile Gaboriau and his School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chekhov's stories are full of murders, duels, and other crimes of passion, as are Gaboriau's.
All in all, Gaboriau was as much an influence on Chekhov as Mary Roberts Rinehart was on F.
I also believe that Chekhov was basically sympathetic to the narrator of "My Life", both as a character, and as an expressor of political ideals.
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 Random House | Authors | Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov was the author of hundreds of short stories and several plays and is regarded by many as both the greatest Russian storyteller and the father of modern drama.
Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago.
Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
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 Anton Chekhov, by Marian Fell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
During these grey years the lonely country and stagnant provincial towns of Russia buried a peasantry which was enslaved by want and toil, and an educated upper class which was enslaved by idleness and tedium.
Anton Tchekoff was born in the old Black Sea port of Taganrog on January 17, 1860.
When Tchekoff was about fourteen, his father moved the family to Moscow, leaving Anton in Taganrog, and now, relieved of work in the shop, his progress at school became remarkable.
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 Malaspina Great Books - Anton Chekhov (1860)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29, 1860,; Taganrog,; Russia - July 14/15, 1904,; Badenweiler,; Germany) was a doctor and writer.
Chekhov is one of the few Russian dramatists whose works are well known in western Europe.
The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of a Great Books Core List developed by Mortimer Adler (1902-2001).
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 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)
We are now pleased to host 201 stories by Chekhov, the entire collections translated by Constance Garnett, as scanned and annotated by James Rusk.
Chekhov at 20 began writing short pieces for newspapers and magazines and after some critical recognition and encouragement wrote many serious stories.
Chekhov died July 2, 1904, (Old Style, July 15 New Style) in Germany, of pulmonary tuberculosis.
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 The Anton Chekhov Page
Anton Chekhov Page has on-line stories and biographical material.
The Chekhov Papers is a dramaturgical e-periodical featured on Gretchen Haley's page about The Seagull.
Chekhov's birthplace and the the store owned by Chekhov's family.
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 Improv Everywhere Mission: Anton Chekov
He would throw a Bokhara robe round his shoulders and wrap a turban round his head and pretend to be some visiting emir from the mysterious lands of the east.
I decided to take Agent White's "Meet Anton Chekov" pitch one step further, and stage a reading by Chekov, pretending to be a part of the Barnes and Noble "Meet the Writers" series.
I mean, Anton Chekov, the most important man in Russian literature, right here in Union Square," he said excitedly.
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 Three Sisters Dramaturgy Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
First presented: 1901Written in four acts, Anton Chekov's play is regarded by some critics as the best drama of the 20th century.
In these succinct pieces Chekhov began to erase the boundary between comedy and drama and to forge the tragi-farcical approach which confounded the audiences and critics of his full-length plays.
Chekhov's major plays, all staged by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre in sentimental and naturalistic productions, developed his characteristic contrapuntal use of dialogue, structure and theme, of offstage and inner action.
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 201 Stories by Anton Chekhov
About Anton Chekhov: One of Russia's greatest writers, Chekhov began his career writing jokes and anecdotes for popular magazines to support himself while he studied to become a doctor.
Between 1888 and his death he single-handedly revolutionized both the drama and the short story.
About this project: Constance Garnett translated and published 13 volumes of Chekhov stories in the years 1916-1922.
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 Anton Chekhov
Chekhov's writing is notable for its social concerns, stylistic ambition, attention to detail and nuances of characterization, and its aspiration to objectivity and impartiality.
Died of tuberculosis in 1904, at the age of 44
Chekhov wrote hundreds of short stories, including "Misery," "The Orator," "The Steppe," "The Duel," and "Ward No. 6"
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