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008			970721s1998 nyuab b 001 0beng
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020			_a0805057471 (hardbound : alk. paper)
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040			_aDLC _cDLC _dDLC _beng
041			_aeng
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050	1	4	_aPG 3458 _bC515R 1998
082	0	0	_a891.72
100	1		_aRayfield, Donald, _d1942- _940217
245	1	0	_aAnton Chekhov : _ba life / _cDonald Rayfield.
260			_aNew York : _bHenry Holt Company, _c1998.
300			_axxiii, 674 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 627-639) and index.
505	0		_apt. 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.
520			_a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
600	1	0	_aChekhov, Anton Pavlovich, _d1860-1904 _927987
600	1	4	_aChejov, Anton Pavlovich, _d1860-1904 _927989
650		0	_aAuthors, Russian _y19th century _xBiography.
650		4	_aAutores rusos _vBiografías _ySiglo XIX _92792
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