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A tour around Chekhov On the centenary of Chekhov's death this exploration of the places he loved brings him to life, says George Walden

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040704
Author:George Walden

Chekhov: Scenes From

a Life

by Rosamund Bartlett

Free Press, pounds 20, 395 pp

pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

Anton Chekhov: A Life

in Letters

tr by Rosamund Bartlett and Antony Phillips

Penguin, pounds 12.99 pbk, 624 pp

pounds 11.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

HERE IS A wonder: a book that delivers more than it promises. By a close description of the places where Chekhov lived, Rosamund Bartlett hoped to shed light on the author's contradictory personality. The place studies are sensitively done, yet what emerges is something bigger: a book that, though deliberately ...

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