I have no doubt that the study of medicine has had an important influence on my literary work; it has considerably enlarged the sphere of my observation, has enriched me with knowledge the true value of which for me as a writer can only be understood... Interpreting Chekhov - Page 47by Geoffrey Borny - 2006 - 309 pagesFull view - About this book
| Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Authors, Russian - 1920 - 392 pages
...important influence on my literary work; it has considerably enlarged the sphere of my observation, has enriched me with knowledge the true value of which for me as a writer can only be understood by one who is himself a doctor. It has also had a guiding influence, and it is probably... | |
| Edward Garnett - Literature, Modern - 1922 - 398 pages
...important influence on my literary work; it has considerably enlarged the sphere of my observation, has enriched me with knowledge the true value of which for me as a writer can only be understood by one who is himself a doctor. It has also had a guiding influence; and it is probably... | |
| William Alexander Gerhardie - 1923 - 216 pages
...important influence on my literary work ; it has considerably enlarged the sphere of my observation, has enriched me with knowledge the true value of which for me as a writer can only be understood by one who is himself a doctor. It has also had a guiding influence, and it is probably... | |
| Montrose Jonas Moses - Drama - 1924 - 712 pages
...important influence on my literary work ; it has considerably enlarged the sphere of my observation, has enriched me with knowledge the true value of which for me as a writer can only be understood by one who is himself a doctor. It has also had a guiding influence, and it is probably... | |
| Montrose Jonas Moses - Drama - 1924 - 714 pages
...important influence on my literary work ; it has considerably enlarged the sphere of my observation, has enriched me with knowledge the true value of which for me as a writer can only be understood by one who is himself a doctor. It has also had a guiding influence, and it is probably... | |
| Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Dramatists, Russian - 1927 - 298 pages
...Tchekhov (1925), by kind permission of the publishers, Messrs. Cassell and Co. the true value of which to me, as a writer, can be understood only by one who is himself a doctor. They also have had a directing influence, and, thanks probably to my knowledge of medicine,... | |
| Joseph Epstein - Literary Collections - 2007 - 446 pages
...doubt that the study of the medical sciences seriously affected my literary work," said Chekhov; "they enlarged the field of my observations, enriched me...understood only by one who is himself a physician." One of the things one discovers in reading — and in reading about— John Keats is how very impressionable,... | |
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