#tchehov

[bookymcbookface]

Extract from “The Steppe”

[sleepydrummer]

To live — to live — that is all. And to leave life on this earth as Tchehov left it and Tolstoi.

Katherine Mansfield, Journal of Katherine Mansfield

[brmyers]

My sister-in-law volunteers at the Oxfam Book Store in London, UK, and when she visits I get spoiled. . . . . . . . #writerslife #writersofig #tchehov #shortstories #tchehovshortstories #tbrpiles #amwriting #amreading #readya #authorsofig #authorslifestyle #bookish #bookcommunity #bookstagram #brmyers #booknerd #bookstoread #readthenorth #localauthor #canadianauthors #readlocal https://www.instagram.com/p/B1HPYHYgAj1/?igshid=1kucu31i91i12

[sleepydrummer]

Oh darling Tchehov! I was in misery to-night—ill, unhappy, despondent, and you made me laugh . . . and forget, my precious friend!

Katherine Mansfield, The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield

[sleepydrummer]

Anton Chekhov  |  Melikhovo, Russia  |  1897

[dustjacketlust]

Tchehov, Anton. Three Sisters and Other Plays. Translated by Constance Garnett. London: Chatto and Windus, 1938. Print.

The last of DJL's pretties purchased in Oxfam today, and what a pretty thing it is, too. From the Chatto & Windus Phoenix Library, its dust jacket is in almost perfect nick (apart from a couple of rips at the back) and is altogether a thing of 1930s beauty. And underneath the phoenix-adorned dust jacket is brown cloth with a phoenix impression in the centre of the cover, and - wait for it - a floral spine! Oh rapture! An actual gold-embellished floral spine! The plays in question are: Three Sisters; Ivanov; A Swan-Song; An Unwilling Martyr; On the High Road; The Wedding. Also, can we take a moment to appreciate the 1930s spelling of Chekhov? Be envious. It's DJL's and you can't have it.