Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This volume has much less about her intellectual development than its predecessor, but MA mentions that as her work began to dabble on the verge of criminality she discovered the Russian writers, beginning with...

Eccentric Mrs St Maugham (owner of the garden on cold and grudging chalk soil, whose poor growing qualities are the play's central symbol) takes on Miss Madrigal as governess to her grand-daughter, Laurel, precisely because...

AB published a new novel, The Bay of Angels, whose dust-jacket features A. N. Wilson likening Brookner to Chekhov .

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...

TD began writing as a child, producing stories about family doings for her mother and sisters. During her last years at school, from 1911, the school magazine, St Ursula's Annual, featured her stories. Living...

AD 's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster , T. S. Eliot , Dickinson

Her title, and her epigraph, come from Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard, and Moscow functions for the English characters in the novel as an impossible utopia. In the USA the novel was titled All...

The setting of this novel is a theatre festival at the grand country home of a former stage star, Christabel Cartwright; Chekhov 's The Seagull, which is to be performed, provides a hidden parallel...

When in London KPF enjoyed going to the theatre, often with John Robert Collins . She loved Votes for Women! by Elizabeth Robins in April 1907, thought Ibsen 's A Doll's House splendid in March...

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...

CG translated the major works of Chekhov , producing in many cases the earliest English versions of them.

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...

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

The play's development was influenced by another project PG was working on at the time, a translation of Uncle Vanya. Her own play, she explains, was much influenced by Chekhov , I had tried...

RG 's determination to become a writer fuelled a continued self-education. Books were hard to come by in India, yet she managed to find and devour recent publications: Edith Sitwell 's Troy Park and Façade...