Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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...

The play traces a bourgeois family's fall from riches to rags as a result of the levelling down of classes in the Russian Revolution. The action begins in 1912 and runs until 1921, the year...

Warner's stories have been compared to those of Anton Chekhov , which are likewise portrayals of character and place having little or no plot. Her compassionate, yet unsentimental, acceptance of people with all...

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...

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...

IT 's sole biographer, Daphne Fielding , records that Tree wrote a number of plays during her time in Ireland. It seems they were not printed, since there are no records of them in...

As a child Betty Coles (later ET ) wrote plays (with very short scenes each demanding a new and elaborate setting) and stories. She said she always wanted to be a novelist. At twelve...

It is a gentle story, called by Hazel Rowley in the Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyChekhovian . Its protagonist, Edward Massine, a Second World War veteran, owns two apartment houses in New York and...

Beecham called the play a ferocious Geordie drama thick with dialect, diatribe and an unsparing depiction of the brutalities of the industrial north at the turn of the century. Its recent director, Jonathan Miller ...

A second anthology collaboration from AS , Sarah Wood , and Kasia Boddy was issued by Penguin Modern Classics: Let's Call The Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer .

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...

GBS published Heartbreak House (with two other plays), a Chekhov ian drama about the corruption of British society on the eve of the First World War.

Yet at this time books discovered in the public library taught her the possibilities in writing: Greek and Elizabethan dramatists. Dostoievsky (Crime and Punishment and Virginia Woolf 's The Waves . ....

In her short autobiographical article Leaving School—XI, AQ mentions having been writing stories since the age of seven to entertain myself. Her urge to write was fostered by her discovery of Dostoyevsky 's...

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...