Magarshack, David
Checkhov
: Faber and Faber Limited, . . , H, Binding is beginning to loosen, corners bumped, spine sun damaged, library stamp on titlepage - no other profanations, "Anton Checkhov is perhaps one of the most baffling figures in Russian literature. His popularity, which was only rivalled in his lifetime by that of Tolstoy, did not bring him closer to his contemporaries; on the contrary, it seemed to widen the gulf between him and his reading public which admired him for the things he himself thought least of all admirable in his writings. ...The key to the mystery of Checkhov's personality must be sought not only in his unhappy childhood but also in his attempts to conceal his grave illness, the nature of which became only too clear to him as early as 1884...", etc., no date but ca. 1940's? 431 pages.; . Good, Cloth, No Jacket, .
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