Quotes from Chekhov’s letters are taken from The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov, edited by Lillian Hellman, translated by Sidonie K. Lederer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1955. Quotes from Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons are from the 1986 Bantam Classics edition translated by Barbara Makanowitzky. Jane’s Russian text is the 1962 edition of Russian: A Beginners’ Course by Ronald Hingley and T. J. Binyon. Helen Caldicott’s quotes come from the 1982 film If You Love This Planet, directed by Terre Nash.
The author gratefully acknowledges the generous and unexpected support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council.
Efforts were made during the writing of this book to preserve our diminishing Canadian lexicon. Please, when you sit down to read, sit on a chesterfield.
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