Saunders, George

Summary: "In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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Chekhov, Anton

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hesperus Classics 2004

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Chekhov, Anton

Contents: Swan song -- The bear -- The proposal -- Ivanov -- The seagull -- A reluctant tragic hero -- The wedding reception -- The festivities -- Uncle Vanya -- Three sisters -- The dangers of tobacco -- The cherry orchard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997

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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

Contents: Seagull -- Uncle Vanya -- Three sisters -- Cherry Orchard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2005

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Summary: A ballet based loosely on Anton Chekhov's play Three sisters. Second program is a documentary portrait of the influential British choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan, with extracts from many of his ballets including The burrow, Romeo and Juliet, Gloria, Manon and The prince of the pagodas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Kultur 2009

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Various authors

Contents: The beaast in the jungle / Henry James. -- Saint Joan / Bernard Shaw. -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad. -- Uncle Vania / Anton Chekhov. -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello. -- Swann in love (from Remembrance of things past) / Marcel Proust. -- A lost lady / Willa Cather. -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann. -- A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990

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