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CHEKHOV | Facts and Details  Chekhov wrote in mainly two genres: the short story and drama. ... His plays The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull , and The Three Sisters continue to be ... Chekhov was born in Taganrog on the Sea of Azovin an area of southern Russian near .... In 1888, he was awarded the Pushkin Prize for In the Twilight which, along with...
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Anton Chekhov - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online ...  His autobiographical journey as seen through the eyes of a child "The ... His works have inspired countless contemporary authors and playwrights ... Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860 in the port town of .... I know this was discussed already in the 'Chekhov Short Story Thread', but after .... The Steppe.
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Gusev - Dictionary definition of Gusev | Encyclopedia.com: FREE ...  "Gusev" is by the Russian short story writer, dramatist, and novelist Anton ... Anton Chekhov was born in the South Russian seaport of Taganrog on January 29, 1860. ... (In the Twilight: Sketches and Stories) in 1887, and it won the Pushkin Prize. ... The following year his short story, "Step" ("The Steppe,") was published in...
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Anton Chekhov - Wikipedia  In 1888, with a little string-pulling by Grigorovich, the short story collection At Dusk (V Sumerkakh) won Chekhov the coveted Pushkin Prize "for the best literary...
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Anton Chekhov - Author, Playwright - Biography.com  Nov 10, 2014 ... Anton Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860, in Taganrog, Russia. ... His story The Steppe was an important success, earning its author the Pushkin Prize in 1888. ... His earliest plays were short farces; however, he soon developed his signature style, which was a unique mix of comedy and tragedy.
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Alexander Pushkin: Father of Russian Literature  Originalpeople.org  Jan 19, 2014 ... Alexander Pushkin: Father of Russian Literature ..... It may seem odd that Russians can get so worked up over a writer born in 1799. But one of...
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Anton Chekhov (January 29, 1860  July 15, 1904), Russian ...  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is ... His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are ... As a boy in Taganrog Chekhov had revealed a flair for writing amusing skits. ... visited Yalta in 1900 to perform his plays, and the next year he married one of its...
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Anton Chekhov - Wikipedia  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to .... In autumn 1887, a theatre manager named Korsh commissioned Chekhov to ... Mikhail Chekhov considered Ivanov a key moment in his brother's ..... Chekhov has also influenced the work of Japanese playwrights including...
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev | Russian author | Britannica.com  Russian novelist, poet, and playwright, whose major works include the ... Turgenev was to be the only Russian writer with avowedly European outlook and sympathies. ... The most famous was The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850), which ... The first of Turgenev's novels, Rudin, tells of an eloquent intellectual, Dmitry...
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Thornton Wilder - Author, Playwright - Biography.com  Nov 11, 2015 ... Later novels included The Woman of Andros, The Ides of March and The Eighth Day. He won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, as well as the 1938 and 1943 awards in drama for Our Town and The Skin ... Just before America's entry into World War II, Thornton Wilder wrote the screen...
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Wikipedia  Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. ... Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical ... Russian Army of Cossack origins and fellow native of the Caucasus region. ... By 1930 the family property had been turned into a collective farm.
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The Best Russian novels of all times - Piero Scaruffi  The best novels of all times ... Ivan Turgenev (Russia, 1818): "Ottsy i Deti/ Fathers and Sons/ Padri e Figli" (1862) +; Lyudmila Ulitskaya ... 1941): "Filial/ The Foreign Branch" (1989) +; Sasha Sokolov (Canada, 1943): "Palisandriia/ Astrophobia"...
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Rudyard Kipling - Wikipedia  Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and ... Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, in the Bombay ..... The Swedish Academy, in awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature this year to...
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Tolstoy's Early Short Novels: Introduction To Tolstoy's Writings (1968)  During Tolstoy's first literary period, before he embarked on 'War And Peace', ... We employ several designations for it: "long short story," "novelette," "short novel," ... "The first condition of an author's popularity, that is, the way to make himself ... Some of the scenes in 'Two Hussars' are extremely well handled, such as the...
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Anton Chekhov - Famous Russian People. Russian celebrities ...  His fame of a brilliant story writer is never-fading, and his plays are shown all over the ... His next collection In the twilight won him the Pushkin Prize in 1888.
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Alexander Pushkin - Wikipedia  Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic ... His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832. .... 1833), Grigory (b. ... Other Russian operas based on Pushkin include Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka and The Stone Guest; Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart...
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Leo Tolstoy - Penguin Books  The Cossacks and Hadji Murat ... The Death of Ivan Ilyich ... Childhood, Boyhood, Youth,The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other ..... He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6).
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Anton Chekhov - Wikipedia  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories .... On his return, he began the novella-length short story "The Steppe," which he called...
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1888 LISPETH Rudyard Kipling - PinkMonkey.com  1888. LISPETH. Rudyard Kipling. Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) - An English novelist, short-story writer, and poet who spent most of his youth in India, and is.