Scenes from a life ( Chekhov)

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Rosamund Bartlett lectures in Russian and music history at the University of Durham and is a Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre in Oxford, where she lives. Her new Chekhov translations, About Love and Other Stories, are published by Oxford World Classics, and her edition of Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters appears with Penguin Classics. Her previous books include Wagner and Russia, Shostakovich in Context, and (co-authored with Anna Benn) Literary Russia: A Guide, a new edition of which was published in 2004.

Further praise for Chekhov: Scenes from a Life

'Rosamund Bartlett takes an impressionist approach to Chekhov's life, and it pays off, making for a hugely enjoyable book which is far more interesting than a conventional biography and much more moving. You end up wondering again at Chekhov's astonishing greatness – man and writer'

David Hare

'A woman writing on a man, excellent! .. . Rosamund Bartlett has come up with the ingenious idea of basing [her biography of Chekhov] on the places he lived in and visited. Consequently, Chekhov: Scenes from a Life brings freshness to a familiar story'

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