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Anton Chekhov

 

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Anton Chekhov : Geneva

'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tchehov is quite right about women; yes, he is quite right.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Print: Book

  

Anton Chekhov : Hamilton

'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tchehov is quite right about women; yes, he is quite right.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Print: Book

  

Anton Chekhov : 

'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew      Print: Book

  

Anton Chekhov : unknown

'February 12. J. [Middleton Murry] read the Tchehov [sic] aloud. I had read one of the stories myself and it seemed to me nothing. But read aloud it was a masterpiece. How was that?'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: J. Middleton Murry      Print: Book

  

Anton Chekhov : unknown

Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on reading nothing but Tchekhov'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Gould      Print: Book

  

Anton Chekhov : The Tales of Tchehov

'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impulses noble and ignoble. I am just finishing it. The best things I have read for ages are the Chekhov short stories in the new complete edition (2 vols out) published here by Chatto & Windus, translated by the eternal Constance Garnett. These stories are unmatched.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

  

Anton Chekhov : 'Uprooted'

Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants from Chekhov's story 'Uprooted.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

Anton Chekhov : Letters

. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . .

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

  

Anton Chekhov : The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories

'Thanks my dearest fellow for he Che[k]hov vol. He is too delightful for words. Very great work. Very great. Do tell your wife of my admiration that grows and grows with every page of her translations I read. The renderings in this vol have impressed me extremely.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

 

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