Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Eccentric Mrs St Maugham (owner of the garden on cold and grudging chalk soil, whose poor growing qualities are the play's central symbol) takes on Miss Madrigal as governess to her grand-daughter, Laurel, precisely because...

It is a gentle story, called by Hazel Rowley in the Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyChekhovian . Its protagonist, Edward Massine, a Second World War veteran, owns two apartment houses in New York and...

KM 's letters and journals reflect an intensity of engagement with the detail of the world around her and with her own inner life: a blend of carefully nurtured skills, as well as, latterly, the...

Warner's stories have been compared to those of Anton Chekhov , which are likewise portrayals of character and place having little or no plot. Her compassionate, yet unsentimental, acceptance of people with all...

She aligned her stories with the difficult truth-telling of Chekhov .

AJ knew from an early age that she wanted to work in the theatre. At school she put together amateur productions of many of her own creations. Her first work to achieve a professional production...

IT 's sole biographer, Daphne Fielding , records that Tree wrote a number of plays during her time in Ireland. It seems they were not printed, since there are no records of them in...

AB published a new novel, The Bay of Angels, whose dust-jacket features A. N. Wilson likening Brookner to Chekhov .

EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound. She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...

Beecham called the play a ferocious Geordie drama thick with dialect, diatribe and an unsparing depiction of the brutalities of the industrial north at the turn of the century. Its recent director, Jonathan Miller ...

A second anthology collaboration from AS , Sarah Wood , and Kasia Boddy was issued by Penguin Modern Classics: Let's Call The Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer .

Her title, and her epigraph, come from Chekhov 's The Cherry Orchard, and Moscow functions for the English characters in the novel as an impossible utopia. In the USA the novel was titled All...

Scholar Claire Tomalin suspects that this refusal had to do with KM 's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov in The Child-Who-Was-Tired. Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...

CG translated the major works of Chekhov , producing in many cases the earliest English versions of them.

Decades later she remembered praising Chekhov , Hoffmansthal , Ibsen , and Strindberg , while admitting that I mocked, censured, rebuked, tore down, with reckless delight, Shaw , Yeats , Masefield , and other British dramatists.