The Seagull - Couverture souple

Chekhov, Anton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1945644958 ISBN 13 : 9781945644955

Editeur : Innovative Eggz LLC, 1896

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, playwright and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. He practised as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." He was born in Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia. In May 1904, he became terminally ill with tuberculosis. In 1908, his wife Olga wrote this account of her husband's last moments: 'Anton sat up unusually straight and said loudly and clearly (although he knew almost no German): Ich sterbe ("I'm dying"). The doctor calmed him, took a syringe, gave him an injection of camphor, and ordered champagne. Anton took a full glass, examined it, smiled at me and said: "It's a long time since I drank champagne." He drained it and lay quietly on his left side, and I just had time to run to him and lean across the bed and call to him, but he had stopped breathing and was sleeping peacefully as a child...'

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Innovative Eggz LLC
• Date d'édition: 1896
• ISBN 10: 1945644958
• ISBN 13: 9781945644955
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 46