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Cesar Chavez
1927 – 1993, american
An Organizer’s Tale
Speeches
Edited with an Introduction by Ilan Stavans
Cesar Chavez was one of the most
important civil rights leaders in American
history. Through his efforts he helped
achieve dignity, fair wages, benefits, and
humane working conditions for hundreds
of thousands of farm workers. This
extensive collection of his speeches and
writings chronicles his progression and
development as a leader, and includes
previously unpublished material.
224 pp. 978-0-14-310526-8 $16.00
anton Chekhov
1860 – 1904, Russian
The Portable Chekhov
Edited with an Introduction by
Avrahm Yarmolinsky
This essential collection of the Russian
master’s writings contains twenty-eight
of his best stories; two complete plays,
The Boor and The Cherry Orchard; and
a selection of letters, candidly revealing
Chekhov’s impassioned convictions on life
and art.
640 pp. 978-0-14-015035-3 $18.00
50 Penguin ClassiCs
The Lady with the Little Dog and
Other Stories, 1896–1904
Translated by Ronald Wilks with an
Introduction by Paul Debreczeny
These eleven stories were written during
the last ten years of Chekhov’s life:
“The Lady with the Little Dog,”
“The House with the Mezzanine,”
“My Life,” “Peasants,” “Ionych,” “About
Love,” “In the Ravine,” “The Bishop,”
and more.
384 pp. 978-0-14-044787-3 $13.00
anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 at Taganrog in southern Russia. After a harsh
childhood he went to Moscow in 1879 and entered the medical faculty of the
university, graduating in 1884. In 1886 Chekhov published his first volume of
stories. The next year, his first full-length play, Ivanov, was produced in Moscow.
He continued to practice medicine while writing many of his best stories. In
1898, Stanislavsky produced The Seagull at his newly founded Moscow Art
Theater. It was for him that Chekhov wrote Uncle Vanya (1900), The Three Sisters
(1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1903). After 1900, when his health began to fail,
Chekhov moved to Yalta, where he met Tolstoy and Gorky. In 1901 Chekhov
married Olga Knipper, one of the Art Theatre’s leading actresses. He died in
1904.