Lucy Sweeney Byrne reviews Anton Chekhov, A Life by Donald Rayfield at The Irish Times.
"This book is fascinating, dauntingly well-researched, but it’s ultimately Rayfield’s unobtrusive asides, his creation of atmosphere, as well as his short yet illuminating accounts of the secondary lives surrounding Chekhov’s, that make it stand out as exceptional (especially when we remember that it is these very lives that were the subjects of Chekhov’s own work)."
See "The Darling" in volume 3 and "The Cherry Orchard" in volume 4 of Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963), and Uncle Vania in Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 59.
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