The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91

FURTHER READING

Gordon McVay (tr.), Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters (London: Folio Society, 1994), the best selection and translation of letters.

Brian Reeves (tr.), The Island of Sakhalin (Cambridge: Ian Faulkner, 1993).

SECONDARY LITERATURE: GENERAL BOOKS

Toby W. Clyman, A Chekhov Companion (Westport/London: Greenwood Press, 1985), a very valuable if expensive collection of essays, with extensive bibliography.

P. Debreczeny and T. Eekman (eds), Chekhov’s Art of Writing: A Collection of Critical Essays (Columbus: Slavica, 1977).

Thomas Eekman (ed.), Critical Essays on Anton Chekhov (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989), 208 pp.

W. Gerhardie, Anton Chekhov: A Critical Study (London: Macdonald, 1974), ‘Bloomsbury’ Chekhov, but well-informed.

R. L. Jackson, Chekhov: A Collection of Essays: 20th-Century Views (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1967).

R. L. Jackson (ed.), Reading Chekhov’s Text (Evanston, Ill.: North-western University Press, 1993).

S. Koteliansky (tr., ed.), Anton Chekhov: Literary and Theatrical Reminiscences (New York: Blom, 1968).

Virginia Llewellyn-Smith, Chekhov and the Lady with the Little Dog (London: Oxford University Press, 1973).

V. S. Pritchett, Chekhov. A Spirit Set Free (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988).

Donald Rayfield, Anton Chekhov: A Life (London: HarperCollins, 1997).

T. Winner, Chekhov and his Prose (New York: Holt, 1966).

WORKS ON INDIVIDUAL STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

‘A Dreary Story’

Shoshana Knapp, ‘Herbert Spencer in Čexov’s “Skucnaja istorija” and “Duel”: The Love of Science and the Science of Love’, Slavic and East European Journal 29:3 (Fall 1985), pp. 279–96.

‘The Duel’

Andrew Durkin, ‘Allusion and Dialogue in “The Duel” ’ in Robert Louis Jackson (ed.), Reading Chekhov’s Text (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1993), pp. 169–78.

‘Gusev’

Milton Ehre, ‘The Symbolic Structure of Chekhov’s “Gusev” ’, Ulbandus Review, New York, 2:1 (Fall 1979), pp. 76–85.

‘The Kiss’

Nathan Rosen, ‘The Life Force in Chekhov’s “The Kiss” ’, Ulbandus Review, New York, 2:1 (Fall 1979), pp. 175–85.

‘The Steppe’

Martina Bjorklund, Narrative Strategies in Čechov’s ‘The Steppe’: Cohesion, Grounding and Point of View, Turku, 1993.

Jerome H. Katsell, ‘Čexov’s “The Steppe” Revisited’, Slavic and East European Journal 22 (1978), pp. 313–23.

‘Verochka’

Joseph Conrad, ‘Čexov’s “Verocka”: A Polemical Parody’, Slavic and East European Journal 14 (1970), pp. 465–74.