Tayny russkoy rechi

Kniga sostoit iz dvuh chastey:
V pervoy chasti Anna Nikolaevna rassuzhdaet o problemah rechi, ob ustnoy i pismennoy rechi, zhivoy razgovornoy rechi i sovremennoy rechi, v tom chisle i o sovremennoy rechi na stsene, o zakonah i pravilah russkoy rechi, ob intonatsii, punktuatsii i udareniyah, monologe, interpretatsii avtorskogo teksta, o rabote so slovom. Ona razbiraet primery iz klassicheskoy russkoy literatury, zatragivaya temu avtorskogo stilya (Pushkina, Tolstogo i t.d.), raskryvaet tayny svobodnogo i zdorovogo golosa, pravilnoy diktsii i vse eto rassmatrivaetsya cherez prizmu russkogo teatra, stsenicheskoy rechi, poetomu vtoroy chastyu knigi yavlyayutsya ankety.
Vsyu svoyu zhizn Anna Nikolaevna sobirala intervyu s so svoim kollegami -znamenitymi akterami, rezhisserami, kotorym zadavala voprosy o slove, stsenicheskoy rechi, rabote nad rolyu, nad klassicheskimi proizvedeniyami, zakonah rechi, tehnike rechi. Eto 22 voprosa o slove velikim masteram rechi.
Eti ankety-intervyu unikalny: v nih «zvuchat « golosa» kak uzhe ushedshih masterov, Oleg Tabakov, Georgiy Tovstonogov, Mihail Gluzskiy, Yuriy Zavadskiy, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Aleksey Gribov, Mariya Knebel, Evgeniy Lebedev, Andrey Myagkov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Sergey Yurskiy, Anatoliy Efros i t.d, tak i sovremenyh akterov i rezhisserov, takih kak Vladimir Mashkov, Evgeniy Mironov, Konstantin Habenskiy, Vera Alentova, Konstantin Bogomolov, Marinna Golub, Nikita Mihalkov, Alla Pokrovskaya, Konstantin Raykin i dr. Pochti kazhdaya anketa napisana rukoy etih masterov, s ih avtorskoy podpisyu. Kazhdyy vopros Anna Nikolaevny v etih anketah peresekaetsya s glavoy v teoreticheskoy chasti knigi i takim obrazom na vopros o slove otvechaet ne tolko Anna Nikolaevna, no i znamenitye mastera stseny.
Imenno lyudi teatra, idya raznymi putyami, sozdali moschnuyu praktiku raboty nad sovershenstvovaniem rechi, raskryli tayny svobodnogo golosa i puti ego ozdorovleniya.
Otkrytiya masterov teatra vazhny dlya russkoy kultury i dolzhny byt obschedostupny dlya povsednevnoy zhizni obschestva.