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Anton Chekhov About Love
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Anton Chekhov About Love
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Anton Chekhov About Love
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Anton Chekhov About Love

Written by Anton Chekhov

Narrated by Max Bollinger

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Where does love come from? How far questions of personal happiness are of consequence in love? Audio book collection of stories by Anton Chekhov united by the theme of love featuring: About Love, The Helpmate, Polinka. Read in English, unabridged.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 14, 2011
ISBN9781907832819
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Anton Chekhov About Love
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Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, in southern Russia, and in his youth paid for his own education and supported his entire family by writing short, satirical sketches of Russian life. Though he eventually became a physician and once considered medicine his principal career, he continued to gain popularity and praise as a writer for various Russian newspapers, eventually authoring more literary work and ultimately his most well-known plays, including Ivanov, The Seagull, and Uncle Vanya. He died of tuberculosis in 1904, and is regarded as one of the best short story writers in history, influencing such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, and Raymond Carver.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This collection of short stories truly is about love. Not happy-ending fairytale love, but the love that really exists in the world: usually unequal felt, sometimes obsessive, and often inexplicable. The stories are all beautiful, well written and self-contained. Each story exhibits a different type of love: love of parents for children, unrequited love, obsessive love, forbidden loves, loves that could have been. Most fascinating to me is the way Chekhov has written the stories so we can see the motivations of all the various lovers. Some of them really want security, an interest to distract them from their meaningless lives, or just sex. In so many cases, what we would like to call love is just avarice. However the stories are not bleak. There are moments when true concern for others breaks through the characters innately selfish natures. I love Chekhov because his stories feel real, his characters aren’t just characters. They are human, with all of our vices, and our slim redeeming virtues.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Quite good but I think Chekhov is a bit too depressing for me.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Very beautiful narration yet again by the man himself