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Book

Selected stories of Anton Chekhov

Call Number

  • FICTION CHEK (CEN, OSH)

Edition

Modern Library paperback edition.

Publication Information

New York : Modern Library, [2000]

Physical Description

xxv, 467 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

Called the greatest of short story writers, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.

Notes

"Originally published in trade paperback in the United States by Bantam Books in 2000."--Title page verso.

Contents

  • The Death of a clerk
  • Small fry
  • The Huntsman
  • The Malefactor
  • Panikhida
  • Anyuta
  • Easter night
  • Vanka
  • Sleepy
  • A Boring story
  • Gusev
  • Peasant women
  • The Fidget
  • In exile
  • Ward No. 6
  • The Black monk
  • Rothschild's fiddle
  • The Student
  • Anna on the neck
  • The House with the mezzanine
  • The Man in a case
  • Gooseberries
  • A Medical case
  • The Darling
  • On official business
  • The Lady with the little dog
  • At Christmastime
  • In the ravine
  • The Bishop
  • The Fiancée.

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