Notebook of Anton Chekhov
The Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) prints the working journal the great Russian writer kept through his last decade, the scraps of overheard talk, story germs, and dry observations from which his tales and plays grew. The English version by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf appeared from the Hogarth Press in 1921, part of the Bloomsbury wave that brought Chekhov to English readers. Brief as the entries are, the whole Chekhovian world is in them: comic, melancholy, exact. Writers have pillaged it for a century. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.
About the Author
Chekhov qualified as a doctor and practised for most of his life, frequently without charging, and called medicine his lawful wife and literature his mistress. He turned out hundreds of comic sketches for magazines to support his parents and siblings while still a student. The…
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