Why Sakhalin?
Joseph Frank: Charting Chekhov’s career, 17 February 2005
Chekhov: Scenes from a Life
by Rosamund Bartlett.
Free Press, 395 pp., £20, July 2004,0 7432 3074 4 Show More
by Rosamund Bartlett.
Free Press, 395 pp., £20, July 2004,
Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters
translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips.
Penguin, 552 pp., £12.99, June 2004,0 14 044922 1 Show More
translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips.
Penguin, 552 pp., £12.99, June 2004,
“... importance who, on close inspection, proves to be such an admirable and sympathetic human being. Rosamund Bartlett’s work is not a conventional biography, unrolling the familiar facts of Chekhov’s life once again, but rather a study of the world in which he lived and wrote. ‘It is difficult for us,’ she writes, ‘to penetrate Chekhov’s ... ”
