Lady With Lapdog and Other Stories (1964) [Collection]
by Anton Chekhov
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Summary
(From the publisher):
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) may be likened to his contemporaries, the pointilliste painters. Piece by piece, episode by episode, character by character, he constructs in prose a survey of the human condition. as David Magarshack writes in his introduction, on reading these stories 'one gets the impression of holding life itself, like a fluttering bird, in one's cupped hands'.
After reading the title story Gorky wrote to Chekhov that everything he himself wrote seemed 'coarse and written not with a pen but with a log'. The stories typify Chekhov's extraordinary ability to compress a whole life into a few pages, and reveal that blend of comedy and tragedy with which he portrays the world.
Original title: Lady With Lapdog and Other Stories
Original languages:
Russian
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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics
The following works are contained within this one:
Grief (1885) [Short Story]
Author: Anton Chekhov
Agafya (1886) [Short Story]
Author: Anton Chekhov
Misfortune (1886) [Short Story]
Author: Anton Chekhov
Boring Story (From an Old Man's Notebook), a (1889) [Short Story]
Author: Anton Chekhov
Grasshopper, the (1891) [Short Story]
Author: Anton Chekhov
Ward No. 6 (1892) [Short Story]
Author: Anton Chekhov
Ariadne (1895) [Short Story]
Author: Anton Chekhov
House with an Attic, the (1896) [Short Story]
Author: Anton Chekhov
Ionych (1898) [Short Story]
Author: Anton Chekhov
Darling, the (1899) [Short Story]
Author: Anton Chekhov
Lady with the Lapdog, the (1899) [Short Story]
Author: Anton Chekhov
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