P Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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A hospital assistant loses his way in a snowstorm while driving a borrowed horse, then seeks warmth at an inn with a dangerous reputation. This opening to “The Horse-Stealers” introduces one of the many situations gathered in this collection of Anton Chekhov's short fiction in English translation. The contents bring together several story collections, with translations credited to Constance Garnett, Samuel S. Koteliansky and R. E. C. Long.

Elsewhere, Nadya laughs over a letter as her thoughts turn between two admirers and the pleasures of the coming summer. In “A Lady's Story,” a woman recalls riding home with a deputy prosecutor as a thunderstorm approaches. Such scenes put changing moods beside weather, conversation and ordinary practical concerns. Readers interested in Russian social life can explore a broad range of stories, moving between comic embarrassment, romantic anticipation and the uneasy encounters of daily life.

About the author

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian short-story writer and playwright who worked as a physician for much of his life. A master of the modern short story and author of plays such as The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard, he shaped twentieth-century drama and fiction alike before dying of tuberculosis at forty-four.