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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word SaundersChekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Contents: Seagull -- Uncle Vanya -- Three sisters -- Cherry Orchard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2005
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC CHEChekhov, Anton Pavlovich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEChekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Contents: The steppe -- The duel -- The story of an unknown man -- Three years -- My life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Contents: Sleepy -- The beauties -- The party -- The shoemaker and the devil -- The bet -- A nervous breakdown -- The princess -- The horse-stealers -- Gusev -- Peasant wives -- The grasshopper -- After the theatre -- In exile -- Neighbours -- Terror -- The helpmate -- The two Volodyas -- Rothschild's fiddle -- The student -- The teacher of literature -- At the country house -- The head-gardener's story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 1998
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Summary: The English-language debut of Anton Chekhov's first collection of mystery and suspense tales. Considered one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Anton Chekhov actually began his literary career as a crime and mystery writer. Scattered throughout periodicals and literary journals from 1880-1890, Peter Sekirin brings together these psychological suspense stories in a premier collection that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHESummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Kultur 2009
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS WINSummary: An actor has dinner with his friend, a theater director, at an Upper West Side restaurant. Together they discuss everything from money to death to love and all the superstition in between.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin, an actor who runs a small...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINSummary: Set in late nineteenth-century Russia, a Russian aristocrat returns home after a long absence and learns her family fortune has been squandered and she may have to sell her mansion and the beloved cherry orchard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS CHESummary: A film of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Anton Checkhov's play Uncle Vanya. Chekhov's portrayal of the frustrations and disillusions of advancing age and the numbing boredom of provincial life in 1890's Russia, is here effortlessly performed by probably the most talented and prestigious cast ever assembled for this work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS UNCSummary: Aging actress Irina visits the country estate where her brother Sorin and her son Konstantin reside. She brings her lover Boris, a successful novelist. The estate teems with desire, jealousy and angst. The estate manager's daughter Masha is in love with Konstantin, who is in love with the sweet neighbor Nina, who is in love with Boris. Boris casually uses and discards Nina while Irina...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEAChekhov, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.723 CHESummary: Spring fever runs wild when a snooty native son returns to his family farm in rural Australia and brings along his voluptous new wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COUSummary: Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, three sisters live in virtual exile. Olga attempts to support her family and home that is the sole legacy from their late father. Masha finds relief from an empty marriage by being involved with a passionate young colonel. Irina wills herself to return the affections of an ardent suitor in the hope that he will whisk her off to the city....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2003