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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040718
Author:Mark Sanderson

TO MARK the centenary of Anton Chekhov's death this month Penguin Classics has published A Life In Letters, the first uncensored edition of his collected correspondence in any language. In her introduction, Rosamund Bartlett quotes Sergey Rachmaninov in 1933: "I'm getting to the end of Chekhov's letters. They are such a joy to read! I can't put them down. What a delightful, clever man he was!"

One of the letters that the composer would not have read in its entirety was sent in November 1888 to Alexey Suvorin, a fellow writer and friend of Chekhov. It soon becomes clear that the letter was ...

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