The Black Monk (Pocket Classics) - Softcover

Anton Chekhov

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862992303 ISBN 13: 9780862992309

Publisher: SUTTON PUBLISHING LTD, 1985

Synopsis

Clean except for sticker residue on cover. Crease on corner of back cover.

About this title

About the Author:

Anton Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860 in Taganrog, Russia. He graduated from the University of Moscow in 1884. Chekhov died of tuberculosis in Germany on July 14, 1904, shortly after his marriage to actress Olga Knipper, and was buried in Moscow.

From AudioFile:

Chekhov can characterize with a single well-selected detail. He sums up relationships among a group of people, or the beliefs held by an entire country, by finding those key objects that crystallize his characters' strongest emotions. These four stories dramatize an array of obsessions that are at once purely Russian and deeply universal. Ralph Cosham's voice is so clear and unaccented as he reads these tales that he is a bit surprising; the complex Russian names stand out, jolting the listeners. But that's the only shock here, as Cosham fits his delivery to Chekhov's style, surging to pile description on description, then pausing, to give entire scenes a unified feel and pace. A superior recording. G.T.B. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: SUTTON PUBLISHING LTD
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0862992303
• ISBN 13: 9780862992309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192