Name: Young Chekhov: How A Great Short Story Writer Started Out
Start: 2025-11-20T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-20T20:30:00+00:00
Location: 80 Hill Rise

Join us for an evening with Chekhov translator and biographer Rosamund Bartlett to discuss her latest translation of the authors early work
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Young Chekhov: How a Great Short Story Writer Started Out.

An evening with Chekhov translator and biographer Rosamund Bartlett...

About Anton Chekov Earliest Stories:

This work presents the first comprehensive annotated edition of Chekhov's earliest stories in English. Translated as part of a unique project involving 85 volunteers from 9 countries, the 58 stories were all written between 1880 and 1882, when Chekhov was in his early twenties, and still at medical school. They make up volume 1 of the 10 volumes of short stories in the authoritative thirty-volume Academy of Sciences edition of Chekhov’s Complete Collected Works, and have been arranged in chronological order. Ranging from comic tales, hilarious skits, literary parodies, outrageous pot-boilers and poignant novellas, the stories are all aimed at a wide audience, and offer a revealing window into the unknown early chapter of Chekhov's life and literary career.