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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is one of the giants of modern literature, exerting a strong influence on many present-day novelists and dramatists. As a playwright, he ranks in popularity second only to Shakespeare in the English-speaking world. As a prose writer, he was one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and his anti-heroic realism, full of ambiguity and allusion, provides no easy moral conclusions and results in a new kind of narrative approaching real life in a way no writer had achieved before him.
As a work of literature, Sakhalin Island is a masterpiece of restrained, dignified, unsentimental prose ... a work of complete seriousness, full of clear, humane, practical suggestions for reform. * The Observer * Mr Reeve's work reminds one that Chekhov was as great a master of the documentary genre - and also of the best academic prose - as of drama and narrative fiction ... Sakhalin Island will never eclipse The Cherry Orchard. But it is every bit as impressive a masterpiece, and this new version will surely make its merits more widely known. * TLS *
