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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (/ˈtʃɛkɔːf, -ɒf/; Russian: Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов, pronounced [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf]; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theater.Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text". Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Unknown[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories

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Release date: 11-06-20

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The Brothers Karamazov, Great Expectations, Moby Dick, The Call of the Wild, The Castle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights, & More

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Jack London, Anthony Trollope, Herman Melville, Anton Chekhov, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, Jason Isaacs, Lucy Scott, Robert G. Slade, Daniel Weyman, Jonathan Keeble, full cast

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About Love and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Adam Grupper, T. Ryder Smith, Henry Strozier

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

Release date: 04-03-14

Language: English

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In the Ravine and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

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Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins

Release date: 20-11-09

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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

By: Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear - introduction translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins

Release date: 16-01-24

Language: English

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The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

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By: Anton Chekhov, Ronald Wilks, Paul Debreczeny

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins

Release date: 05-08-21

Language: English

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The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov, Christopher Hampton - translator

Narrated by: Calista Flockhart, T. R. Knight, Stephen Collins, Gordon Clapp, Logan Fahey, Dakin Matthews, Bess Rous

Length: 1 hr and 49 mins

Release date: 12-02-14

Language: English

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Uncle Vanya

By: Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Vlada Chernornirdik

Narrated by: Josh Radnor, Stacy Keach, Martin Jarvis, J. D. Cullum, Jennifer Bassey, Holley Fain, Devon Sorvari

Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins

Release date: 20-02-14

Language: English

4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
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The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1

1882–1885

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins

Release date: 09-11-11

Language: English

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Three Sisters

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman, Jon Hamm, Josh Clark, Josh Cooke, Dan Donohue

Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins

Release date: 18-08-11

Language: English

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Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Katherine Fenton, Jason Isaacs, Emma Gregory, Barnaby Edwards

Length: 39 hrs and 11 mins

Release date: 14-11-24

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By: Anton Chekhov

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Anton Chekhov: 6 Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions

The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, Wild Honey & More

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Narrated by: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anton Lesser, Robert Glenister, Sinead Cusack, Hattie Morahan, Alex Jennings, Maurice Denham, full cast

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Release date: 15-09-22

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Audible Theatre Collection: Chekhov

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50 Stories from Russia's Greatest Authors

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, Notes from the Underground, First Love, the Queen of Spades, the Death of Ivan Ilych, the Nose, the Cloak, a Dead Body, a Russian Christmas Party and Others

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Aleksandr Kuprin, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Gogol

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The Best of the Playwrights - Tragedies and Comedies by the Masters

Medea by Euripides; Antigone by Sophocles; the Oresteia by Aeschylus; Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth by Shakespeare; a Doll's House by Ibsen; Uncle Vanya by Chekhov; Pygmalion by Shaw and Others

By: Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Bernard Shaw

Narrated by: Mark Bowen, David J. Miles

Length: 61 hrs

Release date: 13-02-25

Language: English

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The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume 1

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Charlton Griffin

Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins

Release date: 28-01-05

Language: English

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The Lady with the Dog

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Max Bollinger

Length: 49 mins

Release date: 08-01-16

Language: English

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The Cherry Orchard: (Classic Radio Theatre - Dramatised)

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Sinéad Cusack, Anna Massey, Patricia Routledge, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Andrew Sachs

Length: 1 hr and 48 mins

Release date: 04-03-11

Language: English

4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
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