Translated and with an Introduction by Robert Payne. Marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in Chekhov's Forty Stories. Spanning the entirety of his career, this collection includes:
A Fragment Surgery The Huntsman Anyuta Sleepyhead The Lady With the Pet Dog The Little Apples St. Peter's Day Joy The Ninny Death of a Government Clerk At the Post Office In the Cemetery Surgery A Report The Threat A Dead Body A Blunder Heartache Vanka Typhus The Princess Gusev The Peasant Women In Exile The Student Anna Round the Neck The House with the Mezzanine On Love The Bishop The Bride Green Scythe The Highest Heights Where There's a Will, There's a Way Sergeant Prishibeyev The Proposal Who Is to Blame? After the Theater Big Volodya and Little Volodya In the Horsecart
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theater. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text."
Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.
Anton Chekhov was the author of hundreds of short stories and several plays and is regarded by many as both the greatest Russian storyteller and the father of modern drama.
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Translated and with an Introduction by Robert Payne. Marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in Chekhov's Forty Stories. Spanning the entirety of his career, this collection includes:
A Fragment Surgery The Huntsman Anyuta Sleepyhead The Lady With the Pet Dog The Little Apples St. Peter's Day Joy The Ninny Death of a Government Clerk At the Post Office In the Cemetery Surgery A Report The Threat A Dead Body A Blunder Heartache Vanka Typhus The Princess Gusev The Peasant Women In Exile The Student Anna Round the Neck The House with the Mezzanine On Love The Bishop The Bride Green Scythe The Highest Heights Where There's a Will, There's a Way Sergeant Prishibeyev The Proposal Who Is to Blame? After the Theater Big Volodya and Little Volodya In the Horsecart
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theater. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text."
Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.
Anton Chekhov was the author of hundreds of short stories and several plays and is regarded by many as both the greatest Russian storyteller and the father of modern drama.
View titles by Anton Chekhov