The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
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By Anton Chekhov 20 Jan, 2020
The title story here is a confrontation between a chorus girl and her lover's wife. But the other stories wander far and wide, showing various sides of late 19th-century Russian life. Chekhov's stories "are very short, almost miniatures. For the m ... Read more
The title story here is a confrontation between a chorus girl and her lover's wife. But the other stories wander far and wide, showing various sides of late 19th-century Russian life. Chekhov's stories "are very short, almost miniatures. For the most part, they are elegant trifles, worked out with painstaking care . . . The author is not interested in outlining the details, but the picture that he has sparingly conjured up stands out lifelike; he is always in a hurry to observe and tell. Therefore the brevity and quality of his stories. Less
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  • 2018-07-08
  • English
  • 978-3963762680
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 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 a...
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