Example sentences for: chekhov

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  • Written during a feverish tuberculosis fit when Chekhov was in his early 20s, titles include: "On the Train," "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town," "From the Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper," and "Elements Most Often Found in Novels, Short Stories, Etc." A story reports from a funeral directors' convention--they see big business in millions of aging baby boomers.

  • These materials had not been thoroughly examined even by Russian scholars, because the Soviet authorities had wanted to keep Chekhov quasicanonized.

  • Like Chekhov, Keats was thrust by early family experiences into a vicious individualism that forever strained his metaphysics.

  • British playwright David Hare wins praise for adapting Chekhov into colloquial language, though the melodrama of the original is said to remain.

  • The just-published Cornel West Reader is dedicated to John Coltrane, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Tennessee Williams, Giacomo Leopardi, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Vaughn, Muriel Rukeyser, Thomas Hardy, Nikos Kazantzakis, Toni Morrison, "and above all," Anton Chekhov.


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