Franklin Library Anton Chekhov Russian Peasants: Ornate

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Franklin Library: Anton Chekhov: Peasants and Other Stories Franklin Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of Anton Chekhov's "Peasants and Other Stories," Selected and with an Introduction by Edmund Wilson, Illustrated by Frederick Schneider, a limited edition, one of the COLLECTED STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS series, published in 1977. Bound in a Most Gorgeous black Moroccan cowhide, this book has scarlet red French moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, satin bookmarker, 22 kt. gold gilding on three edges and in the center and back of the covers---in near FINE condition. Anton Chekhov, who lived from 1860-1904, was born in Taganrog, Russia. He studied medicine in MOSCOW University. While practicing medicine he wrote skits for newspapers to help support his family. Chekhov once quipped that "literature is my mistress and medicine is my wife. When I tire of one, I spent the night with the other." Chekhov married the actress OLGA KNIPPER late in life, but he was ill and the couple spent their honeymoon in a health spa. Chekhov is one of the greatest writers of nineteenth-century RUSSIA---along with Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Turgenev, and Puskin. Chekhov is the author of "The Cherry Orchard," the premiere play written for the new Moscow Art Theatre's debut in January, 1904. In the later year of Chekhov's life---1 read more

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