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Ivan R. Dee, Publisher: Excerpt from Chekhov: The Hidden Ground by Philip Callow.
Copyright © 1998 by Philip Callow. Dee, Publisher.
Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.: Excerpt from “Where I’m Calling
From” from Cathedral by Raymond Carver. Copyright © 1983 by Raymond Carver.
. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
Northwestern University Press: Excerpt from Reading Chekhov’s Text by Robert Louis
Jackson (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1993). Copyright © 1993 by
Northwestern University Press.
Zephyr Press: Excerpt from “Requiem” from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova,
translated by Judith Hemschemeyer, edited by Robert Reeder. Copyright © 1989 by Judith
Hemschemeyer.
A portion of this work was originally published in The New Yorker.
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Malcolm, Janet.
Reading Chekhov / Janet Malcolm.
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1. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904—Criticism and interpretation. I. Title.
PG3458.Z8 M.72’3—dc21 2001019585
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