- Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
- Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
- Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).
SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>
Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Anton Chekhov.
| DATABASE |
SEARCH
TERMS |
RESULTS |
| Academic Search Premier | chekhov Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text", and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals". |
Provides a large number of relevant items. |
| Arts & Sciences Collections I & II | chekhov JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections I & II, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details). |
Provides a number of revlevant documents. |
| Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online | chekhov
Perform
the default search |
Provides biographical information and an extensive bibliography. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | chekhov Perform the default search. |
Provides a primary encyclopedia article and a large number of related articles. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | chekhov Perform the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text". |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Literature Resource Center | chekhov Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, web links, and journal articles. |
Provides a number of quality documents. |
| MagillOnLiterature | chekhov Perform the default search. |
Provides a number of relevant items. |
| Research Library Complete | chekhov Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library". Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and"Scholarly journals". |
Provides a number of quality items. |
| Scribner's | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Chekhov, Anton link.
|
Provides an essay about the author and his works, along with a bibliography. |
| SIRS Renaissance | chekhov Perform the "Quick Search" and select "Keyword/Natural Language" option.
|
Provides a number of quality items. |
| Story Finder | chekhov Perform the default search. Under Stories, click on “view all story matches.” |
Provides a large number of full-text works by Chekhov. |
| Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors | Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the Chekhov, Anton link. |
Provides a small number of quality items. |
SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>
- The following bibliography
is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
- Circulating books
not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary
loan.
- eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.
Chekhov: a collection
of critical essays
PG3458A1J3 1967
Location: AL; Dothan
Chekhov's plays:
an opening into eternity
Location: eBook
A sourcebook on
naturalist theatre
Location: eBook
A new life of
Anton Chekhov
PG3458 .H475 1976
Location: Phenix City
Anton Chekhov's
short stories : texts of the stories, backgrounds, criticism
PZ3 .C3985 AN 1979
Location: Phenix City
Chekhov's great
plays : a critical anthology
PG3458.Z9 D723
Location: Montgomery
The best known
works of Anton Chekhov
PG3456 .A1 1929
Location: Dothan
Reminiscences
of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreev
PG3465.A37 1948
Location: Dothan
Best plays
PG3456 .A19 Y6 1956
Location: Phenix City
Chekhov, the dramatist
PG3458.M3 1960
Location: Dothan
Chekhov and his
prose
PG3458.W5 1966
Location: Dothan
The Chekhov play:
a new interpretation
PG3458.Z9 D76 1973
Location: Dothan
Chekhov's plays
: an opening into eternity
PG3458 .Z8 G5 1995
Location: Montgomery
Understanding
Chekhov : a critical study of Chekhov's prose and drama
PG3458 .Z8 R39 1999
Location: Dothan
Reading Chekhov
: a critical journey
PG3458 .Z8 M28 2001
Location: Montgomery
The plays of Anton
Chekov : nine plays including The sea-gull ... [et al.]
PG3456 .A19 1954
Location: Troy, AL
Introduction to
Russian realism
PG3096 .R4 S5
Location: Troy, AL
Russia discovered
: nineteenth-century fiction from Pushkin to Chekhov
PG3098.3 .C3 1976
Location: TroyAL; Phenix City
SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
- Anton Chekhov Biography
http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/chekhovbio.html
- Anton Chekhov
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/chekhov.htm
- Anton Chekhov
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/208/frameset.html
- Chekhov,
Anton P.
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/chekhov68-au-.html
- ECS Anton
Chekhov Page
http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/checkov.htm
- Three Sisters
Dramaturgy Page
http://library.ups.edu/instruct/ricig/tsmain.htm
- Personal
Recollections of Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/GorPers.html
- Notes on
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/murphyd/Z-history/chekhov-orchard.htm
- Great Books Index:
Chekhov
http://books.mirror.org/gb.chekhov.html
