Adler, Stella, Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov, Knopf, 1999.

Stella Adler is one of the founders of the New York Actor's Studio, which taught the acting techniques innovated by Stanislavsky. Stanislavsky, in his time, was a founder of the Moscow Art Theater where many of Chekhov's plays were produced. In this book, Adler discusses the works of three of the great playwrights of the nineteenth century.

Bonazza, Blaze Odell, Russian Authors, Mayflower, 1981.

This book consists of a collection of short stories by famous Russian authors.

Brooks, Jeffrey, When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917, Princeton University Press, 1985.

This work includes a history of literacy, printing, reading habits, and popular culture in Russia from the emancipation of the serfs to the Russian Revolution.

Gorky, Maxim, Reminiscences, Dover Publications, 1946.

This book is made up of reminiscences of Chekhov by his contemporary author and close...