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    BIBLIOGRAPHY .…………………………………………………………………... 9 Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short story writer‚ playwright and physician‚ considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife"‚ he once

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    Cited: in this story: (http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Anton_Chekhov) (http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/ac/naughty.htm) (http://www.biography.com/people/anton-chekhov-9245947?page=1#boyhood-and-youth)

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    The problem of love in the story “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov To begin with I should say‚ that Anton Chekhov in his creative work paid a lot of attention to unpredictability of people’s actions‚ to unusual even absurd people’s feelings and especially to love. Anton Chekhov can be surely called “the descriptor of daily routine”. But although his works are realistic and truthful‚ they make you think a lot about the unpredictability and sometimes cruelty of real life. “The Lady with the

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    The Lottery Ticket I. The Author and It ’s Background : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog‚ southern Russia‚ the son of a grocer. Chekhov ’s grandfather was a serf‚ who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught himself to read and write.Yevgenia Morozov‚ Chekhov ’s mother‚ was the daughter of a cloth merchant. "When I think back on my childhood‚" Chekhov recalled‚ "it all seems quite gloomy to me." His early years were shadowed

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    Discuss the emergence of realism in theatre at the turn of the 20th century and how you think it influenced playwrights like Anton Chekhov‚ Henrik Ibsen‚ August Strindberg and George Bernard Shaw. Miriana Borg Second year Group: 2A Discuss the emergence of realism in theatre at the turn of the 20th century and how you think it influenced playwrights like Anton Chekhov‚ Henrik Ibsen‚ August Strindberg and George Bernard Shaw. Realism  in the theatre was a general movement in the later

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    with the Pet Dog” initially written by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) and later on written by Joyce Carol Oats (B. 1938). The story of two lovers‚ seen by a man with a Romanticism style‚ and 100 years later written by a woman in the post modern time. This pieces show is how different can be a story when is told in a different gender on a different time frame. The first difference in this story is about the authors. Initially the story was written by Anton Chekhov who was born in a small town in Russia

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    The Role of the Setting in Chekhov ’?s "?The Lady with the Dog"? It is nearly a universal truth that any good piece of literature contains well developed characters and most authors achieve this by providing background and dialogue for the main character ’?s that helps the reader to identify with each character. In "?The Lady with the Dog"? however‚ Anton Chekhov expresses the metamorphosis of Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna‚ as well as their relationship‚ not through dialogue‚ but by providing symbolism

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    lottery ticket By Anton chekhov The writer: Anton Chekhov was a Russian short-story writer‚ playwright and physician‚ considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife"‚ he once said‚ "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov renounced the

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    “Lady with the Pet Dog” Anton Pavlovich Chekhov‚ 1860-1904‚ Russian writer and physician.(Fragment) The son of a grocer and grandson of a serf‚ he helped support his family‚ while he studied medicine‚ by writing humorous sketches. His reputation as a master of the short story was assured when in 1888 “The Steppe‚” a story in his third collection‚ won the Pushkin Prize. The Island of Sakhalin(Novel or story?) (1893-94) was a report on his visit to a penal colony in 1890. Thereafter he lived

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    economy‚ and thus began the social change that would eventually lead to an uprising analogous in many ways to the French Revolution. Anton Chekhov‚ an accomplished short story writer and playwright of the late nineteenth century‚ recognized this enduring class shift throughout his motherland and praised the work ethic of his fellow citizens‚ as Hugh Short affirms. “[Chekhov] was convinced of the need for unceasing striving‚ a belief that pervaded his life and work; and he had a faith that the future

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