Simply Chekhov, Paperback - Carol Apollonio

Reducere. Born in the port city of Taganrog in southern Russia, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) survived a difficult childhood with an abusive father and put himse...

This attractive kitchen-friendly cookbook offers 294 authentic country recipes in a sturdy hardback hidden-spiral binding that lies flat for easy c...

'Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter all rolled into one ... I...

Reducere. Anton Chekhov is one of the undisputed masters of world drama. He is usually thought to hide himself behind his characters and stories, keeping his...

In this extraordinary collection of twenty tales, Richard Ford, a master short-story writer in his own right, has selected his personal favourites,...

Reducere. The first 30 years of the 20th-century produced a theatrical explosion whose reverberations are still felt today. Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Vakhtang...

Reducere. Anton Chekhov was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writin...

Reducere. Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popular...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow...

Reducere. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Bo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anton Pavlovich ChekhovBecause Chekhov s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, fr...

Reducere. Born in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was largely raised by his mother and his maternal grandparents after his father died when he was two. H...

Reducere. Born and raised in a small town in Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) began his career in philology (the study of language), and serv...

Reducere. Born to a poor Lutheran pastor in what is today the Federal Republic of Germany, Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a child math prodigy who began st...

Reducere. Born in a small town near Warsaw, Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was a musical prodigy who began giving public concerts and composed his first piano p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: J. David MarkhamAuthor: Matthew ZarzecznyThe first emperor of France and one of the shrewdest military leaders of all time,...

Reducere. "Robert Wicks has achieved the near-miracle of presenting the whole of Hegel's thought in a way that will both enlighten the novice and be of great...

Reducere. Kurt G del (1906-1978) was born in Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic) and grew up in an ethnic German family. As a student, he excelled in la...

Reducere. Born in Vienna into an extremely wealthy and highly cultured family, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) grew up surrounded by art, music, and a distur...

From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influentia...

DescriptionHow does an actor learn to: * Call up emotion? * Develop a character? * Strengthen awareness? These are essential techniques for every a...

what do you think he does?- He destroys her.A story about how we make stories, a story about unrequited love, The Seagull is one of the great plays...

Reducere. This collection includes seven short plays based on Anton Chekhov's short stories: THE MAN IN A CASE by Wendy Wasserstein, VINT by David Mamet, DRO...

Chekhov's iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation. Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Ch...

I know now, Kostya, I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of...

Uncle Vanya (1898) is a four-act play by Russian short story writer and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre ...

Reducere. This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessi...

DescriptionA timeless observation of the human condition from one of the best story writers in the history of world literature. Chekhov's character...

Reducere. DescriptionMaxim Gorky said that no one understood "the tragedy of life's trivialities" as clearly as Anton Chekhov, widely considered the father o...

Reducere. CD 1: Picture Book (1985)Come To My AidSad Old RedLook At You NowHeavenJerichoMoney's Too Tight (To Mention)Holding Back The Years(Open Up The) Red...

The Cherry Orchard was first produced by the Moscow Art Theatre on Chekhov's last birthday, January 17, 1904. Since that time it has become one of ...

Reducere. The Cherry Orchard (1903) is Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov's final play. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, in this unique adaptation of one of the great masterpieces of the theater, allows us to see Anton Ch...

Reducere. Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born at Yasnaya Polyana, his ancestral estate located about 120 miles from Moscow. While he would live and travel...

Drawn from Sharon Marie Carnicke's volume of "Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes" (Hackett), this title features Carnicke's translation of a play ...

Reducere. -Superior to any other Uncle Vanya I've read or seen... Baker practices astonishing verbal magic over and over again.- - Clancy Martin, Paris Revie...

Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya in a new version by Christopher Hampton. nor does it seem to announce the end of an era, like The Cherry Orchard: ...

Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who Hitler counted among his friends. This is the story of how Olga ...

Don't be miserable, you wonderful woman; be a mermaid. There's the ocean; throw yourself in. Fall in love with some poor mortal and drag him down w...

A civilised and complacent culture is on the brink of collapse... The tide of change is coming. Madam Ranyevskaya's liberal world of privilege and ...

A cogent and insightful new biography of one of the great Russian writers.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. What can you uniquely give the world? We often sell ourselves short with self-limiting beliefs, but most of us would be amazed and delighted to kno...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This book starts with the description of polarization in classical optics, including also a chapter on crystal optics, which is necessary to unders...

Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer. This title introduces readers to some other sides of Chekhov: hi...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten in 1903, "The Cherry Orchard" was Anton Chekhov's final play, widely regarded as one of his greatest dramatic accomplishments. I...

Reducere. First published in 1953, "To the Actor: On the Technique of Acting" is the famous and influential guide to acting by Russian-American actor, direct...