Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations
by Garson O'Toole · 1 Apr 2017 · 376pp · 91,192 words
Books, https://goo.gl/WKGhPY, and Amazon, https://goo.gl/5ZGXUt. A reader wrote to QI complaining that the above quotation had been attributed to Anton Chekhov, the Russian master of short stories and drama, but that he had acquired zero evidence to support this claim. “I even asked my Slavicist friend
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’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.” The screenplay was by Clifford Odets, America’s chief inheritor of the dramatic tradition of Anton Chekhov, and in that one line, he epitomized the lesson of his master. QI conjectures that the quotation above was constructed from a flawed memory of
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. No citation was specified for the quotation:4 Any idiot can face a crisis—it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out. —Anton Chekhov This influential reference work has been released in many editions and revised several times. The same quote is present in the 1986 enlarged edition of
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; Ward No.6; 486 5152; vul Vorovskoho 31A; noon-2am; Universytet) For a healthy dose of insanity sneak into this well-hidden bar named after Anton Chekhov’s story about life in a madhouse. Dressed in doctors’ white robes, stern-looking waiters nurse you with excellent steaks (mains 40uah to 60uah) and
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, doctors in St Petersburg had one remedy for poor-lunged aristocrats: Yalta. That is how the Russian royal family and other dignitaries, such as playwright Anton Chekhov, ended up here. Old parts of Yalta are still full of modest and not-so-modest former dachas of the tsarist-era intelligentsia , while the
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short distance away, the Chekhov House-Museum is the only must-see in town. It’s sort of The Cherry Orchard incarnate. Not only did Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) pen that classic play here, the lush garden would appeal to the most horticulturally challenged audience. A long-term tuberculosis sufferer, the great
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by Orlando Figes · 7 Oct 2019
tomorrow morning I won’t have to listen to that “Maiden’s Prayer” any more,’ says Irina, bound for Moscow, in the final act of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, as its saccharine melody wafts into the garden from a drawing-room).89 Louise Farrenc (1804–75) and Louise Bertin (1805–77
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), p. 134. 87. BMO, NLA 357, Pauline Viardot to Henri Heugel, 21 Feb. 1882. 88. Marix-Spire, ‘Vicissitudes d’un opera-comique’, p. 66. 89. Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters, in Plays, trans. Peter Carson (London, 2002), p. 265. 90. François-Joseph Fétis, Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique
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by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas · 28 Feb 2012 · 1,150pp · 338,839 words
happened, have been no finer grounding in the atmosphere of prerevolutionary Russia,” he later noted. He sent unsolicited to the Yale Review an article titled “Anton Chekhov and the Bolsheviks.” Said the State Department officer charged with clearing the essay: “If Yale can stand it, I can.” Yale apparently could not. Citing
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Americans for Democratic Action, 27 Amherst College, 68–70 Andropov, Yuri, 20, 728–29 Anglo–American coalition, Churchill’s iron curtain speech and, 362–64 “Anton Chekhov and the Bolsheviks” (Kennan), 154 Arden (Harrimans’ estate), 43–45, 63, 106–7, 285 arms control, 435, 577, 737 Acheson on, 33, 324–26, 356
Red Plenty
by Francis Spufford · 1 Jan 2007 · 544pp · 168,076 words
Nove, Economic History of the USSR, 1917–1991, final edition (London, 1992). 9 It looked like the set for some Chekhov story: specifically, ‘Peasants’, in Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896– 1904, translated by Ronald Wilks (London: Penguin, 2004) – though Emil appears to be thinking of
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Nove, Economic History of the USSR, 1917–1991, final edition (London, 1992). 9 It looked like the set for some Chekhov story: specifically, ‘Peasants’, in Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896– 1904, translated by Ronald Wilks (London: Penguin, 2004) – though Emil appears to be thinking of
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Experience (Cambridge: CUP, 1980) Janet G. Chapman, Real Wages in Soviet Russia Since 1928, RAND Corporation report R-371-PR (Santa Monica CA, October 1963) Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896–1904, translated by Ronald Wilks (London: Penguin, 2004) L. G. Churchward, The Soviet Intelligentsia: An
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles · 5 Sep 2016
from their university days, Viktor Shalamov was now the senior editor at Goslitizdat. It was his idea to have Mishka edit their forthcoming volumes of Anton Chekhov’s collected letters—a project that Mishka had been slaving over since 1934. “Ah,” said the Count brightly. “You must be nearly done.” “Nearly done
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by Daniel Markovits · 14 Sep 2019 · 976pp · 235,576 words
of “leaved” and “conceived” borrows from Philip Larkin, “Long Lion Days,” in Larkin, The Complete Poems, 323. “devours everything in its path”: See Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, in Anton Chekhov, Plays, trans. Elisaveta Fen (New York: Viking Penguin, 1959), 363. “Human Capital Management”: Kevin Roose, Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall
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by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
, May 17, 2016. 7. J. Mervis, “Updated: U.S. House Passes Controversial Bill on NSF Research,” Science, Feb. 11, 2016. 8. From Note-book of Anton Chekhov. The quote continues, “What is national is no longer science.” 9. J. Lears, “Same Old New Atheism: On Sam Harris,” The Nation, April 27, 2011
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, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 4 (New York: Everyman’s Library, [1776–1788] 1910), p. 160. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 4 Anton Chekhov, “A Dreary Story,” in My Life and Other Stories, trans. Constance Garnett (New York: Everyman’s Library, [1889] 1992). BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 5 Miguel
How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
by Richard Cohen · 16 May 2016
finally: “Will you honor the King’s English?” One author who would never have made the club, had it been instituted in his day, was Anton Chekhov, who in 1884 employed a narrator who turns out to be the murderer in a 180-page melodrama, The Shooting Party, his one novel. *4
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of revision is small changes and knowing when and what to omit. Hemingway once wryly observed that half of what he wrote he left out. Anton Chekhov, besieged by writers wanting his opinion on their work, would advise them all, “Cut, cut, cut!” “Writing a book is like building a coral reef
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