Word: magarshack
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were long on sympathy if short on brilliance (Reginald Pound's Arnold Bennett, Lionel Stevenson's able Ordeal of George Meredith); and a few actually enlarged their subjects' dimensions (Betty Miller's Robert Browning, David Magarshack's Chekhov, Antony Alpers' Katherine Mansfield). In one book that was not properly a biography, two well-known men told a great deal about themselves and about each other in one of the longest correspondences of the century. The Holmes-Laski Letters were part mutual-admiration society, part...
Chekhov, by David Magarshack. A lively account of the short and passionate life of Russia's greatest playwright (TIME, Sept...
Chekhov, by David Magarshack. A lively account of the short and passionate life of Russia's greatest playwright (TIME, Sept...
Chekhov, by David Magarshack. A lively account of the short and passionate ife of Russia's greatest playwright (TIME, Sept...
...daughters, has written the umpteenth story of her father's life, coincident with the publication of a new, grand-scale biography of Chekhov. Author Tolstoy was her father's secretary, and her book is a useful, bulky filing cabinet of Tolstoyana, though empty of literary substance. David Magarshack is a pundit of the Russian drama who has already written a life of Producer Stanislavsky and a study of Chekhov's plays. His huge, valuable Chekhov resembles Tolstoy only in that it, too. is more a receptacle for facts than a vehicle of literary criticism...