The Russian author’s tale sees a serial seducer fall in love (Getty) When I was about 30, I discovered Chekhov. A bit late in the day, admittedly, but I’d gone with a friend to see The Seagull and we ...

FIFTY-TWO STORIES. By Anton Chekhov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Knopf. 508 pages. $35. In a lecture published posthumously in 1981, Vladimir Nabokov had this to say about ...

CHEKHOV (669 pp.)—Ernest J. Simmons—Atlantic-Little, Brown ($10). He saw men small and vulnerably human. In an era where others were con cerned with the conflict of good v. evil, Anton Chekhov saw ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Bob Blaisdell’s “Chekhov Becomes Chekhov” does exactly what its title promises: It tracks—story by story, month by month, sometimes day by day—how Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), the Moscow ...

THE SELECTED LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV (331 pp.)—Edited by Lillian Hellman—Farrar, Straus ($4). “Why do you always wear black?” “I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.” —The Seagull The Anton ...

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It was in a biography of Anton Chekhov that Terence Davies found his movie – or at least the tone. “I’d just finished reading Philip Callow’s biography of Chekhov,” recalls Davies, whose celebrated ...

HOSPITAUTY was a veritable passion with Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. No sooner had he settled down in a village than lie began inviting throngs of guests to visit him. He filled his house to overflowing ...

ALONG THE Siberian highway, between Tyumen and Tomsk, Anton Chekhov stayed the night in a coach driver’s cabin. Two months earlier a gentlewoman had stopped there with her newborn boy. Suspecting that ...