Anton Chekhov

Author: Donald Rayfield
Edition: F 1st American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0805057471

Anton Chekhov: A Life

Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles--either with his dependents or with the tuberculosis that was to kill him at forty-four. Get Anton Chekhov literature books for free.
He was one of the greatest playwrights and short story writers ever born, but he was torn between medicine and literature, as he was between family and friends, between a longing for solitude and a need for company. Donald Rayfield spent more than five years combing the Chekhov archives all over Russia, uncovering thousands of documents and letters from lovers, friends, and family, most of them never published before. They tell of a life far more entangled and turbulent than we ever previously suspected, and in Rayfield's hands allow us to look past Chekhov's restrained, ironic facade to ap Check Anton Chekhov our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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He was one of the greatest playwrights and short story writers ever born, but he was torn between medicine and literature, as he was between family and friends, between a longing for solitude and a need for company They tell of a life far more entangled and turbulent than we ever previously suspected, and in Rayfield's hands allow us to look past Chekhov's restrained, ironic facade to ap

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