Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends is a selection from the playwright's correspondence translated by Constance Garnett and published in 1920, with a biographical sketch by the editor. The letters run from Chekhov's student years in Moscow in the 1880s to his death in 1904 and are addressed to his brothers and sister, to his publisher Suvorin, to Gorky, to the actors of the Moscow Art Theatre and to his wife Olga Knipper. They show him at work as a doctor and a writer, traveling to Sakhalin, building a house at Melikhovo, confined to Yalta by illness, and commenting on his own stories and plays and other people's with candor and humor. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the opening pages are free.
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