In Munro stories, as in Chekhov’s, plot is secondary and “little happens.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [alice munro | withdraws from canadian prize « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

Chekhov is a master at making his characters’ darkest aspects comprehensible and human.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiction] Reference

Frank and April Wheeler are the reverse of the unhappy family in Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suburbs of Our Discontent] Reference

You might think that the dead animal had exhausted its potential as a symbol of a relationship in Chekhov’s The Seagull.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 December 03 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

And, wondering whether we can create that world, no longer from the void, I recall Chekhov's many quiet words of encouragement and hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anton Chekhov] Reference

And others such as Chekhov and James Joyce, who was the primary inspiration for my collection of stories, Lost in the City.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Edward Jones] Reference

Vogt C features three flamboyant and poignant one-act plays such as Chekhov's Drama (above).    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen's Journal: Latest stories] Reference

The scripts include a number of works adapted and translated from world literature, by authors such as Chekhov and Gogol.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Obviously, Chekhov has had a big influence on you.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chekhov] Reference

Over time, Chekhov seems only to grow more relevant.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fresh Look At Chekhov] Reference

I ended up buying a book of short stories by Chekhov.    From Wordnik.com.  [elephants Diary Entry] Reference

If she couldn't write like Chekhov, she wouldn't bother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mixed Media] Reference

'Like Chekhov,' he answered over his shoulder, 'but bad.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

She recounts her love for Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary Life] Reference

In fact, "Three Sisters" makes Chekhov seem funny by comparison.    From Wordnik.com.  [BRING ON THE BENCH WARMERS] Reference

Not for Wolfe the moral or psychological hairsplitting of James or Chekhov.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Wolfe Bites Back] Reference

Simon has always loved Chekhov, and now that he's 70, he's feeling autumnal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Of Simon] Reference

Tough lad ': Yeltsin's boyhood reads like a story by Chekhov, his favorite author.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yeltsin's Challenge] Reference

What had been translated seemed obscure except a tiny book of one-acts by Chekhov.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solzhenitsyn Juke-Box] Reference

Chekhov is not popular in Georgia, whose people emphasize that they are not Russians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping It All In The Family] Reference

But Chekhov was reflecting the enormous social changes that had taken place in Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chekhov] Reference

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chekhov] Reference

As always, and unlike Tolstoy, Chekhov leaves the question of what it all means unanswered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mixed Media] Reference

But I think with Chekhov, it's the specific as well as the general, the individual character.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chekhov] Reference

Among such as also won a hearing in Germany must be mentioned Vladimir Korolenko and Chekhov.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxim Gorki] Reference

That is, if there be emancipation at all, as Chekhov said, let there be equity in all things?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2007] Reference

The truth is, in a Chekhov film you can dress the actresses in decent hats instead of scarves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

He immortalized that city in his work, which critics compared to that of Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvey Pekar Dies; Authored 'American Splendor'] Reference

He left three plays, including the most astonishing play between Shakespeare and Chekhov, Woyzeck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making A Revolution Onstage] Reference

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chekhov] Reference

There's a kind of wryness — I'm sure Chekhov didn't expect you to have an evening of loud laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chekhov] Reference

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call motivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chekhov] Reference

Bunin was a gifted writer of the old school, very much in the tradition of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoevsky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside The Red Terror] Reference

Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chekhov] Reference