Сравнить цены на книгу: Selected Stories (Anton Chekhov), 2017

Anton Chekhov was a master of the short story. The son of a former

serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study

medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his

family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886

when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya

(New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov

began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing

his own principles and conceptions of truth, for a time coming

under the influence of Leo Tolstoy. As a result of his widespread popularity,

Chekhov amassed a vast collection of short stories displaying

an early use of stream-of-consciousness writing, as well as his powerful

ideas concerning the individual, the tedium of life, and the beauty

nature and humanity. “Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov” including

many of the author’s greatest shorter works.

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