唐纳德•雷菲尔德（Donald Rayfield），伦敦大学玛丽女王学院俄国文学教授，主要研究俄国和俄国文学。1998年，雷菲尔德的代表作《契诃夫传》出版后即引起国际契诃夫学界的强烈反响。2005年，《契诃夫传》被引进俄罗斯，亦引起讨论并再版，受到人们的关注。

唐纳德•雷菲尔德（Donald Rayfield），伦敦大学玛丽女王学院俄国文学教授，主要研究俄国和俄国文学。1998年，雷菲尔德的代表作《契诃夫传》出版后即引起国际契诃夫学界的强烈反响。2005年，《契诃夫传》被引进俄罗斯，亦引起讨论并再版，受到人们的关注。

唐纳德•雷菲尔德（Donald Rayfield），伦敦大学玛丽女王学院俄国文学教授，主要研究俄国和俄国文学。1998年，雷菲尔德的代表作《契诃夫传》出版后即引起国际契诃夫学界的强烈反响。2005年，《契诃夫传》被引进俄罗斯，亦引起讨论并再版，受到人们的关注。

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life. Considered the gre...(展开全部)

On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist who told the author that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran.” So beg...(展开全部)

On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist who told the author that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was the first time Rushdie heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet, and the Quran.” So beg...(展开全部)

On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.” So begins the extraordinary story of ho...(展开全部)

In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov’s stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St Petersburg. Malcolm demonstrates how the shadow of death that hovered over most of Chekhov’s literary career – he became consump...(展开全部)

'Petit's words go right to the heart of Chekhov's technique ...Anyone looking for a key to understanding more about Michael Chekhov's technique will devour it.' - Jessica Cerullo, Michael Chekhov Association, NYC The Michael Chekhov technique is today seen as one of the most influential and inspiring methods of actor training in existence. In The Michael Chekhov Handbook, Lenar...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)