Results for "The Seagull" in Literature & Fiction

A master of Russian realism, Anton Chekhov is renowned for his meticulously observed plays and short stories exploring the human condition, in all its joys and sorrows. Included here are six of his best-known dramas, as well as Michael Frayn's adaptation of Wild Honey, drawn from an early, untitled Chekhov play; and one documentary exploring Chekhov's life and work. 

Arrested and imprisoned in a small Swiss town, a prisoner begins this book with an exclamation: ‘I’m not Stiller!’ He claims that his name is Jim White, that he has been jailed under false charges and under the wrong identity. To prove he is who he claims to be, he confesses to three unsolved murders and recalls in great detail an adventuresome life in America and Mexico among cowboys and peasants, in back alleys and docks. He is consumed by ‘the morbid impulse to convince’, but no one believes him.

Mick makes a decision to pursue a desire that routine, work commitments, and family duties had long suppressed. He, therefore, moved to Southern California to conquer a new freedom, and, finally, after a life passed too quickly, between endless working days and long hours passing him by...to be an artist.

Dopo il pensionamento, Mick matura la decisione di rincorrere un desiderio che la routine, gli impegni lavorativi e i doveri familiari avevano a lungo soppresso. Si trasferisce così nel sud della California per conquistare una nuova libertà e, finalmente, dopo una vita passata troppo in fretta, tra interminabili giorni lavorativi e lunghe ore volate via...essere un artista.