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- catalog abstract ""Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles - both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that was to kill him at age forty-four. He was one of the greatest playwrights and short-story writers ever born, but he was torn between medicine and literature, as he was between family and friends, between a longing for solitude and a need for company. When he was a child, his family life was at times made a hell by a monstrous father, a possessive sister, and delinquent elder brothers; his own adult life was tortuously balanced between the affections of a series of mistresses and a marriage to an actress that was not as idyllic as it has traditionally been painted." "Donald Rayfield's biography strips the whitewash from the image of Chekhov and shows us what lay behind his restrained, ironic facade. The result does not denigrate him but shows him in the full heroism of his brief, prodigiously creative life. Rayfield has spent more than three years combing the Chekhov archives all over Russia (Chekhov was a restless traveler for the whole of his life, going from Siberia to the Cote d'Azur) and has uncovered thousands of documents and letters from Chekhov's lovers, friends, and family, most of them never published before, which cumulatively tell of a life far more entangled and turbulent than we ever previously suspected. The many cuts made in Soviet and foreign editions of Chekhov's and his wife's letters have been restored; what once was hidden is now revealed."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10719474.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles - both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that was to kill him at age forty-four. He was one of the greatest playwrights and short-story writers ever born, but he was torn between medicine and literature, as he was between family and friends, between a longing for solitude and a need for company. When he was a child, his family life was at times made a hell by a monstrous father, a possessive sister, and delinquent elder brothers; his own adult life was tortuously balanced between the affections of a series of mistresses and a marriage to an actress that was not as idyllic as it has traditionally been painted." "Donald Rayfield's biography strips the whitewash from the image of Chekhov and shows us what lay behind his restrained, ironic facade. The result does not denigrate him but shows him in the full heroism of his brief, prodigiously creative life. Rayfield has spent more than three years combing the Chekhov archives all over Russia (Chekhov was a restless traveler for the whole of his life, going from Siberia to the Cote d'Azur) and has uncovered thousands of documents and letters from Chekhov's lovers, friends, and family, most of them never published before, which cumulatively tell of a life far more entangled and turbulent than we ever previously suspected. The many cuts made in Soviet and foreign editions of Chekhov's and his wife's letters have been restored; what once was hidden is now revealed."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-639) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Father to the man: 1860-79 -- pt. 2. Doctor Chekhov: 1879-86 -- pt. 3. My brothers' keeper: 1886-9 -- pt. 4. Années de Pèlerinage: 1889-92 -- pt. 5. Cincinnatus: 1892-4 -- pt. 6. Lika disparue: 1894-6 -- pt. 7. Flight of the seagull: 1896-7 -- pt. 8. Flowering cemeteries: 1897-8 -- pt. 9. Three triumphs: 1898-1901 -- pt. 10. Love and death: 1901-4.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 674 p., [24] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Anton Chekhov.".
- catalog identifier "0805057471 (hardbound : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Anton Chekhov.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Henry Holt,".
- catalog relation "Anton Chekhov.".
- catalog subject "891.72/3 B 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, Russian 19th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 Biography.".
- catalog subject "Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.".
- catalog subject "PG3458 .R35 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Father to the man: 1860-79 -- pt. 2. Doctor Chekhov: 1879-86 -- pt. 3. My brothers' keeper: 1886-9 -- pt. 4. Années de Pèlerinage: 1889-92 -- pt. 5. Cincinnatus: 1892-4 -- pt. 6. Lika disparue: 1894-6 -- pt. 7. Flight of the seagull: 1896-7 -- pt. 8. Flowering cemeteries: 1897-8 -- pt. 9. Three triumphs: 1898-1901 -- pt. 10. Love and death: 1901-4.".
- catalog title "Anton Chekhov : a life / Donald Rayfield.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".