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In the ravine and other short stories [audiobook] / Anton Chekhov ; read by Kenneth Branagh.

By: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 [author].
Contributor(s): Branagh, Kenneth [narrator] | Soames, Nicolas, 1950- [producer].
Material type: materialTypeLabelSoundSeries: Classic fiction (Naxos AudioBooks, Ltd.): Publisher: Surrey : Naxos AudioBooks, 2002Description: 3 audio discs (3 hrs. 35 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.Content type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9626342617.Subject(s): Short stories, Russian | AudiobooksDDC classification: 891.733
Contents:
In the ravine -- Oh! the public -- The chorus girl -- The trousseau -- A story without a title -- Children -- Misery -- Fat and thin -- The beggar -- Hush! -- The orator -- An actor's end.
Production Credits: Selected and produced by Nicolas Soames ; edited by Sarah Butcher.
Read by Kenneth Branagh.Summary: Anton Chekhov is regarded by many as the most outstanding short story writer. This may be a surprise at the first encounter with even his most famous stories, becouse they are rarely driven by plot or anticipation. They are often gentle in character, elusive in purpose; but they create a resonance in the imagination that rings long. Here are twelve stories, from the brightly comic to the overtly tragic, each full of the sharpest observations of personality and situation, and with implications beyond their brief form: the dying actor, the children playing a game, the cabman with his tragedy, the orator's mistake and, perhaps most richly of all, a family laid bare in "In the ravine".
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Audio Book 891.733 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00159781
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Here are eleven short stories, Oh! The Public, The Chorus Girl, The Trousseau Without a Title, Children, Misery, The Beggar Fat and Thin, Hush, The Orator, In The Ravine

Unabridged version.

"Classic literature with classical music" -- Container.

In the ravine -- Oh! the public -- The chorus girl -- The trousseau -- A story without a title -- Children -- Misery -- Fat and thin -- The beggar -- Hush! -- The orator -- An actor's end.

Selected and produced by Nicolas Soames ; edited by Sarah Butcher.

Read by Kenneth Branagh.

Recorded at Motivation Sound Studios.

Anton Chekhov is regarded by many as the most outstanding short story writer. This may be a surprise at the first encounter with even his most famous stories, becouse they are rarely driven by plot or anticipation. They are often gentle in character, elusive in purpose; but they create a resonance in the imagination that rings long. Here are twelve stories, from the brightly comic to the overtly tragic, each full of the sharpest observations of personality and situation, and with implications beyond their brief form: the dying actor, the children playing a game, the cabman with his tragedy, the orator's mistake and, perhaps most richly of all, a family laid bare in "In the ravine".

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Anton Chekhov is regarded by many as the most outstanding short story writer. This may be a surprise at the first encounter with even his most famous stories, because they are rarely driven by plot or anticipation. They are often gentle in character, elusive in purpose; but they create a resonance in the imagination that rings long. Here are 12 stories, from the brightly comic to the overtly tragic, each full of the sharpest observations of personality and situation, and with implications beyond their brief form: the dying actor, the children playing a game, the cabman with his tragedy, the orator's mistake and, perhaps most richly of all, a family laid bare in In the Ravine. Anton Chekhov was a Russian short story writer and playwright. Born in 1860, he trained as a doctor and practiced medicine throughout most of his life. The third of six children, Chekhov attended university in Moscow. He married the actress Olga Knipper in 1901, but by May 1904 he was terminally ill, and died in July of that year. Kenneth Branagh, a leading figure in film, TV and on stage, is equally at home with classic and contemporary subjects. However, as director and adaptor, he has made a particular contribution to Shakespearean performance with his films such as Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and Henry V. His productions of Shakespeare on stage have included Henry V, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It and King Lear. Film credits include Frankenstein, Othello and Theory of Flight. Excerpted from In the Ravine and Other Short Stories by Anton Chekhov All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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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 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)