Memories of Chekhov: Accounts of the Writer from His Family, Friends and Contemporaries

by Peter Sekirin

This revelatory documentary biography of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), one of the world's best playwrights, collects more than 100 written recollections of Chekhov's close friends, family and colleague writers and artists, such as Ivan Bunin, Konstantin Stanislavsky and Maxim Gorky. Drawn from rare periodicals and obscure archival sources from the 1880s to the 1930s, these accounts, few of which have ever before been translated to English, address...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786458712
• ISBN13: 9780786458714
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher