Reading Chekhov
Subtitle: A Critical Journey
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: November 12, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780375761065
First sentence: After they have slept together for the first time, Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna von Diderits, the hero and heroine of Anton Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog" (1899), drive out at dawn to a village near Yalta called Oreanda, where they sit on a bench near a church and look down on the sea.