The Greatest Short Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov, Constance Garnett (Translator)

The Greatest Short Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov, Constance Garnett (Translator)Regarded as the father of the short story as well as the first modern fiction writer, Anton Chekhov rejected conventional forms to examine the lives of ordinary people in prosaic situations. His impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition resound with emotional honesty, focusing on character rather than plot and revealing subtle but important truths. Thomas Mann held Chekhov in highest esteem, declaring, "His short stories rank

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925

the merciless Commandant

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Confusing changes in the world with moral decline

And they had been inseparable since then

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‘Here I feel that I have come to the place that I needed most in all the world… The hills all round seem to me like an emerald vessel brimming over with peace and sunshine

the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine