Understanding Chekhov : a critical study of Chekhov's prose and drama / Donald Rayfield.

Author/creator Rayfield, Donald, 1942-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxvii, 295 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Formation of a writer -- Five years in Grub Street -- Suvorin and Tolstoy: the great and the good -- The free writer -- Disease and self-destruction -- The early plays -- The consequences of Sakhalin -- Melikhovo -- The seagull -- Confession -- Uncle Vania -- Peasants -- Love -- Three sisters -- Valediction -- The cherry orchard.
General note"First published in 1999 by Bristol Classical Press ... London"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index.
LCCN 99010704
ISBN0299163148 (alk. paper)