The Kiss and Other Stories
by Anton Chekhov
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Through the tales of Chekhov we penetrate into the depths of Russian life. Trivial events, simple anecdotes and small events serve as a starting point for the author's best stories, which together form a mosaic of the way of being and feeling of an entire people. Great literature within reach of all pockets.Tags
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Vooral Zaal 6 en De Kus steken er boven uit. soms lichtelijk kafkaiaans van sfeer
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the provincial town of Taganrog, Ukraine, in 1860. In the mid-1880s, Chekhov became a physician, and shortly thereafter he began to write short stories. Chekhov started writing plays a few years later, mainly short comic sketches he called vaudvilles. The first collection of his humorous writings, Motley show more Stories, appeared in 1886, and his first play, Ivanov, was produced in Moscow the next year. In 1896, the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg performed his first full- length drama, The Seagull. Some of Chekhov's most successful plays include The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and Three Sisters. Chekhov brought believable but complex personalizations to his characters, while exploring the conflict between the landed gentry and the oppressed peasant classes. Chekhov voiced a need for serious, even revolutionary, action, and the social stresses he described prefigured the Communist Revolution in Russia by twenty years. He is considered one of Russia's greatest playwrights. Chekhov contracted tuberculosis in 1884, and was certain he would die an early death. In 1901, he married Olga Knipper, an actress who had played leading roles in several of his plays. Chekhov died in 1904, spending his final years in Yalta. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Kiss and Other Stories
- Original title
- De kus en andere verhalen
- Alternate titles*
- Verhalen
- Original publication date
- 1982 (English translation, Wilks) (English translation, Wilks)
- First words
- On 20 May, at eight o'clock in the evening, all six batteries of a reserve artillery brigade, on their way back to headquarters, stopped for the night at the village of Mestechki.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Please...
- Original language*
- Russisch
- Disambiguation notice*
- Nederlandse ed. oorspr. verschenen o.d.t. Verhalen (vert. Aleida G. Schot; Boucher, 1945). De 2de (Boucher, 1953) en latere drukken verschenen o.d.t.: De kus en andere verhalen.
Een selectie van drie verhalen uit deze bun... (show all)del is eveneens verschenen o.d.t.: De kus en andere verhalen ('3de dr.', Contact, 1973). Beide uitgaven a.u.b. niet combineren.
Niet te verwarren met de uitgave onder dezelfde titel. Deze bundel bevat slechts 3 verhalen, de andere uitgave bevat er 8.
Please do not combine with the edition with the same title. This edition contains only three storie... (show all)s, the other eight.
Bevat: Wjérotsjka (1887) ; De kus (1887) ; Een trieste geschiedenis (1889)
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
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- PG3457 .S5 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1870-1917 Chekhov
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