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ANTON CHEKHOV-Princess Nina Andronikova Toumanova-Columbia Uni-versity Press...
...Author. In 1925 exiled Princess Nina Andronikova Toumanova arrived in the U. S. with $29, no English. Now she is Lecturer in French at Barnard College, has just taken her Ph.D. at Columbia University, is a naturalized U. S. citizen. It took a revolution to arouse her interest in Chekhov. As a refugee in Paris she studied at the University, discovered Maupassant, through him, Chekhov. In the U. S. she learned English by teaching French, decided to perfect it by taking a Ph.D. Her English dissertation she rewrote four times, parts of it 50 times. Nothing daunted, she now plans...
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