Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Selected Stories was hailed as an important literary event, and produced particularly interesting reviews from A. S. Byatt and John Updike . Byatt wrote that Munro was the equal of Chekhov or de Maupassant

Among a rich harvest of prizes and honours, AM won the Giller Prize in both 1998 and 2004. In 2002 an Alice Munro Literary Garden, just beside the museum, was dedicated in Wingham, Ontario...

LP was so moved that she wept as she wrote this play. She later perceived an autobiographical element in it. Reviewers were on the whole less impressed than they had previously been by Page...

The Persephone reprint of 2004 provided a recuperation opportunity for reviewers. The Guardian reviewer saw the book as a forerunner of Anita Brookner , and wrote that although it is clear where Cooper's sympathies lie...

Theatre World found this immeasurably Dodie Smith's best play, expressing admiration for her vivid sense of character and situation.James Agate wrote a flattering review that even compared some of her characters to...

This volume brought ML critical acclaim. R. J. Thompson read it as establishing her position as one of the most artful and perceptive masters of the story form in our day.In Ireland, wrote the...

Allan Massie wrote in The Scotsman that Mackay's prose skips and dances. He called her one of the best short-story tellers now practising, an heir of Chekhov , who has the knack of taking the...

On the subject of Gallant's first The New Yorker story, Madeline's Birthday, Mordecai Richler —signing his name as Mordy—wrote to Douglas M. Gibson to say i saw mavis's story in the new yorker. i'm...

Reviews were mixed (one pronounced occasionally ponderous as well as poignant and personal).Josephine Hendin in the Saturday Review found the novel politically cliché'd and its resolution improbable. AW responded with an indignant...

This was chosen as one of the year's best books by the New York Times Book Review.Carol Shields brought a long perspective on AM 's work to her notice in the London Review...

The Press, which began as therapy and for the purpose of publishing the works of its owners, grew into a major engine of modern culture and thought. Its political interests were served by enlightened...

PG 's adaptation of Chekhov 's Uncle Vanya was first performed by the Hampstead Theatre Club .

During the first half of the twentieth century, CG translated over seventy volumes of Russian literature. At the expense of her eyesight, she translated the major works of Tolstoy , Gorky , and others, and...

KM 's stories have been credited (in Margaret Drabble 's Oxford Companion to English Literature) as the main channel through which the work of Chekhov (a major and fully-acknowledged influence on her style) reached...

With the start of the Second World War in 1939, the community, headed by Michael Chekhov (nephew of Chekhov the author) and funded by American Beatrice Streaight , moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut. IT and...