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10 de jun. de 2024 · Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and master of the modern short story. He described the Russian life of his time using a deceptively simple technique devoid of obtrusive literary devices, and he is regarded as the outstanding representative of the late 19th-century Russian realist school.
10 de jun. de 2024 · One of the greatest Russian short story writers and an exemplary playwright, Anton Chekhov penned down some of the finest short stories and plays in literature. His works continue to be translated into various languages across the world.
22 de jun. de 2024 · Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate. Born (Антон Павлович Чехов) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer.
1 de jul. de 2024 · In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the setting, diction, and imagery combine to create an overall atmosphere of gloom. Death and decay are evoked at the outset. The story opens on a “dull, dark, and soundless day” in a “singularly dreary tract of country.”.
Hace 6 días · The narrator, traveling alone, comes upon a "dreary tract of land" where the house stands. He describes the house as "melancholy", having "a sense of insufferable gloom", as "desolate or terrible"
Hace 3 días · This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction.
Hace 22 horas · Leamas never knows until a climactic tribunal in East Germany that Mundt is not the enemy—he is actually Britain’s man. To save Mundt, Control plays on Leamas’s hope for revenge. Then he betrays that hope. “Suddenly, with the terrible clarity of a man too long deceived, Leamas understood the whole ghastly trick.”.
