The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
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
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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