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| 1. |  | Stories of Anton Chekhov from Bantam Price: $10.40 Customer Review:  A true master of the form of the short story, this collection of stories illustrates the full depth of Chekov's range of subjects and characters: serfs, bishops, doctors, merchants, coroners, in the country, city, and in between. There seems to have been no area of Russia where Chekov did not have... |
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| 2. |  | The Complete Short Novels from Vintage Price: $10.85 Customer Review:  Checkov is considered the master of the short stories, but I prefer to think of him as the master of GRAYNESS. The stories have a gloomy, dark perspective that may leave one in quite a depressing mood. Is it because of the long, cold, windy Russian winters that blow outside ? Or is it because... |
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| 3. |  | Anton Chekhov's Short Stories (Norton Critical Editions) from W. W. Norton Price: $11.25 Customer Review: Chekhov may well be the best short story writer to put pen to paper. His stories demonstrate a tight, crisp, and unadorned revelation of character. His charactives act, yearning and struggling to define themselves without authorial intrusion. They're laid bare by life, as we all are. Many stories... |
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| 4. |  | The Complete Plays from W. W. Norton Price: $15.61 Customer Review: I had to get this boook for an acting class because the professor (who is Russian) wanted to use a translation other than the more well known Paul Schmidt complete works. While I like Paul's for a very American translation accessible more to American Actors and audiences, there is admitedly... |
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| 5. |  | Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard (Oxford World's Classics) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $8.95 Customer Review: Although I only bought this edition because I needed for a class and the School bookstore was sold out, why not write a review? After all, Amazon.com asked me to... Since I only read the "Cherry Orchard", I'll focus on that. The play concerns an old aristocratic family who is facing the... |
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| 6. |  | The Complete Short Novels (Everyman's Library) from Everyman's Library Price: $15.64 Customer Review: There is nothing more aesthetically pleasing than to surrender to the artifice of a master. One is deeply comforted in reading this collection of well-translated works. Chekhov reproduces human perception and experience with brilliant precision and insight. His deeply felt compassion and empathy... |
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| 7. |  | Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) from Dover Publications Price: $3.50 Customer Review: 'Dover Editions' do not provide the frills. We do not get a real introduction to the stories, to the Russian story in particular. We do not get notes on the stories. And we do not even get the names of the translators. But we do get some of the finest of all Russian stories. These include... |
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| 8. | [no image] | Three Years from Tark Classic Fiction Price: $6.99 | |
| 9. |  | How to Write Like Chekhov: Advice and Inspiration, Straight from His Own Letters and Work from Da Capo Press Price: $10.92 Customer Review:  I had this one on my wish list because I found the concept intriguing. I found the excerpts of Chekov's letters and other writings to be dull, verbose translations and more to the point, their application to specific aspects of the writing craft were either tenuous, confusing, or non-existent. This... |
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| 10. |  | The Cherry Orchard from Grove Press Price: $11.20 Customer Review: This, Chekov's last play, is the story of Madame Ranyevskaya's family, which lost its wealth, and an estate that included a cherry orchard. The subtext carries the story and is about how not to deal with existentialist stasis -- a state of being immobilized by the fear of change, and the complexity... |
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| 11. |  | The Seagull (Methuen Drama) from A&C Black Price: $10.53 Customer Review: Oh tormented people. One may read `The Seagull' and wonder what's that all those things about death and killing, and failing love stories. So sad! But in Chekov's world this is a comedy, and it doesn't take too much to get why. It is indeed funny in some parts-- well, not the kind of funny we are... |
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| 12. |  | The Plays of Anton Chekhov from Digireads.com Price: $12.95 Customer Review:  It neither surprises nor pleases me to learn that this is the current actor's standard for Chekhov translations in America. I bought this as a text for an acting class, and I kept it because Chekhov was a great writer and no translator can change that. However, the plays collected in this volume... |
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| 13. |  | Chekhov: The Four Major Plays: Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, Cherry Orchard from Ivan R. Dee, Publisher Price: $12.76 Customer Review: I've been reading and studying these plays for years now, and have read through and worked out of numerous different translations. Curt Columbus' versions of these four mighty plays are exceedingly well done. They are eminently actable and highly accessible to a modern audience. Yes, he does make... |
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| 14. |  | The Major Plays (Signet Classics) from Signet Classics Price: $6.95 Customer Review: Anton Chekhov had a strange idea of comedy. His famous play "The Sea Gull" begins with a character dressed in black who declares: "I am in mourning for my life" and ends with a suicide. His other self-proclaimed "comedy" in this collection, "The Cherry Orchard", presents characters in such... |
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| 15. |  | Five Comic One-Act Plays (Dover Thrift Editions) from Dover Publications Price: $3.00 | |
| 16. |  | Chekhov: The Essential Plays (Modern Library Classics) from Modern Library Price: $8.95 Customer Review: Dr. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was the first major Russian writer who was not an aristocrat. His grandfather had been a serf. Chekhov was a brilliant genius of classic short stories and plays. In this Modern Library edition his four most famous plays are translated into English. Those plays... |
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| 17. |  | The Three Sisters from Grove Press Price: $10.40 Customer Review: I recently went to a reading of this play by a theatre group here in Philadelphia that I really enjoy. Although I could write a very positive review of their reading, I'll try and focus on the writing itself. This play presents a masterful peek into societal life for three sisters living in a... |
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| 18. |  | A Life in Letters (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $12.00 Customer Review: While the current review is lovely, it's quite wordy for my attention span--I am sure some share my sentiments. Simply put: buy this publication if you like Anton Chekhov. The editor's autobiography and narrative is comprehensive, readable and not at all boring--the included maps are a nice touch... |
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| 19. | [no image] | Uncle Vanya from Samuel French Inc Plays Price: $7.95 Customer Review: Enjoyed this adaptation by David Mamet very much. It arrived very quickly which was surely appreciated. Thank you. |
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| 20. |  | Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $8.80 Customer Review: I'd long heard that Russian writer Anton Chekhov had written short stories, but like most people it was on the strength of his plays, those intense little mood pieces, that I knew him best. Granted, I thought the plays uniformly strong, and considered him of a stature near that of a Tennessee... |
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| 21. |  | A Night in the Cemetery: And Other Stories of Crime and Suspense from Pegasus Price: $15.23 Customer Review: I bought this collection because I love five of Chekhov's full length plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. The title of these short stories seemed intriguing and promising to me. However, the writing, at least in this translation, is subpar, and were... |
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| 22. |  | Selected Stories (Signet Classics) from Signet Classics Price: $6.95 Customer Review: A great collection of Chekhov's representative stories. Provides even more depth than the Russian Classics book for those who want to go deeper into Chekhov's intellect. Notes about each story provide helpful background information and a history of the story's origin. |
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| 23. |  | Forty Stories from Vintage Price: $11.96 Customer Review: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) has long been acknowledged as one of Russia's greatest playwrights and short story authors, a man whose expressiveness with the pen stemmed, in great part, from the hardship of his childhood experiences and, later in life, his vast globetrotting wanderings. Chekhov's family... |
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| 24. |  | The Portable Chekhov (Viking Portable Library) from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $12.24 Customer Review: This compilation includes 29 stories (or plays). Of these, I felt the following were the best: The Privy Councillor An Encounter The Letter The Kiss An Attack of Nerves Anna on the Neck At Home The book includes some of Chekhov's more obscure short... |
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| 25. | [no image] | Plays by Anton Chekhov from Broadway Play Pub Price: $14.95 Customer Review: Plays in general have a tendency to be overly-dramatic. Thus the name "drama". Chekhov definitely used this drama aspect to enhance his plays. He succeeded with some, making them dramatic, awe-inspiring, and amazing. Others? Less so. I enjoyed reading all of these plays, and I won't deny that.... |
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| 26. |  | A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire (Penguin Great Journeys) from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $8.50 Customer Review: The Penguin version of Anton Chekhov's journey to the tsarist penal colony on Sakhalin Island is very worthwhile and certainly would be recommended by myself. The only issue I have with it is that reading it makes you want to read the actual, full length work by Chekhov, not just these excerpts. You... |
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| 27. |  | Tales of Chekhov (13 Volume Set) from Ecco Price: $117.67 Customer Review: I started reading the Russian writers--Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Turgenev, Gogol, and Chekhov--in the mid-1960s with Anton Chekhov becoming my favorite of all. Anyone developing an appreciation of Chekhov's writings will be overjoyed with this astounding boxed set of 13 books. I've... |
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| 28. |  | Best Russian Short Stories, with active table of contents. Improved 5/17/2008 from B&R Samizdat Express Price: $0.99 Customer Review:  This is a terrible example of a Kindle book. You cannot access chapters or specific stories without paging through the ENTIRE book page by page by page by page until you find what you are looking for. It is utterly useless. Only 99 cents and I'm going to be asking for my money back. Don't waste your... |
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| 29. |  | Five Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) from Dover Publications Price: $3.50 Customer Review: Chekhov's writing shines in this collection. The stories are nice and short--easy to read when you have 15-20 minutes to spare. If you like these, I recommend you read some of his short novels and of course, his four excellent plays. |
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| 30. |  | Six Great Modern Plays from Dell Price: $7.50 Customer Review: This is a "must have" if you like to read plays! Great for a book group since the price is right!! |
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