Anton Chekhov
Lady with Lapdog And Other Stories
Penguin Books Ltd 1971 Paperback, 288pp. 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'. some tanning; previous owner's name inside. Fair.
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Keywords: Classics, Short Stories, Russian