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The Chorus Girl and Other Stories

By Anton Chekhov

2020-01-20 19:58:36

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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File size205.132 KB
Print pages301
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2018-07-08
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-3963762680
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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