Chekhov A Biography Author:V.S. Pritchett In Pritchett Chekhov has found a wonderful chronicler ... since VS Pritchett is also a remarkable writer of short stories, thee is such a consonance between the two men than Pritchett's robust but always natural prose becomes an echo-chamber for Chekhov's own voice ... Pritchett, in other words, has a quality which the more conventional biograph... more »er goes not necessarily possess - an instinctive empathy with his subject which allows him to come close to solving the problem of why Chekhov is simply, but mysteriously, Chekhov. (Peter Ackroyd in The Times)« less