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Young Chekhov: How a Great Short Story Writer Started Out.

An evening with Chekhov translator and biographer Rosamund Bartlett...

About Anton Chekov Earliest Stories:

This work presents the first comprehensive annotated edition of Chekhov's earliest stories in English. Translated as part of a unique project involving 85 volunteers from 9 countries, the 58 stories were all written between 1880 and 1882, when Chekhov was in his early twenties, and still at medical school. They make up volume 1 of the 10 volumes of short stories in the authoritative thirty-volume Academy of Sciences edition of Chekhov's Complete Collected Works, and have been arranged in chronological order. Ranging from comic tales, hilarious skits, literary parodies, outrageous pot-boilers and poignant novellas, the stories are all aimed at a wide audience, and offer a revealing window into the unknown early chapter of Chekhov's life and literary career.

About Rosamund Bartlett

Rosamund Bartlett is a writer, translator and lecturer. A cultural historian with a background in Russian literature, music and art, her books include Wagner and Russia and Tolstoy: A Russian Life. She has also written a biography of Chekhov, and published translations of his short stories and letters. Her new translation of Anna Karenina was published in 2014.

Her current interests focus on Russian and European Modernism, opera, and the intersection between politics, history and the arts. She has lectured on these and other topics, including Tchaikovsky, Chekhov and Levitan, Matisse in Moscow, Kandinsky and The Blue Rider, and Modernist women artists, both in the UK and abroad.