Anton Chekhov (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Donald Rayfield
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1860-1904
- Setting: Imperial Russia, especially St. Petersburg, Taganrog, and Moscow and its environs
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Authors or writers, Literature, Writing, Poverty or poor people, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Tuberculosis, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: Moscow, Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia
Donald Rayfield is a professor of Russian literature at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Among his previous books on Chekhov are Chekhov: The Evolution of His Art (1975), The Cherry Orchard: Catastrophe and Comedy (1994), The Chekhov Omnibus: Selected Stories (1994), and Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and the Wood Demon (1995).
In the preface to his two-volume short-story collection, W. Somerset Maugham compares Chekhov, as a writer of short fiction, with Guy de Maupassant. According to Maugham, Maupassant wrote stories of action,...
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