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'Chekhov is like an Impressionist painter and has a style all hiw own,' wrote Tolstoy.

‘At first glance it appears as if the painter has merely smeared his canvas with the first colour that came to hand, indiscriminately, so that the brush-strokes seem to bear no relationship to each other. But as soon as one steps back and surveys the work from a distance, one has the remarkable impression of a colourful, irresistible painting.’

Chekhov’s painterly sensitivity to atmosphere, sensations and emotional light and shade is most brilliantly demonstrated in ‘The Party’, in which he draws on his experience as a doctor to portray the tense and conflicting feelings of a pregnant woman; or in ‘A Nervous Breakdown’, in which he describes how a morbidly shy young man reacts to the brothels of Moscow. All the stories here are vivid, pungent, memorable and, as Gorky described them, ‘like exquisite cut-glass bottles, with all the different scents of life in them’.

Includes: The Party, A Woman's Kingdom, My Life: A Provincial's Story, An Unplesant Business, A Nervous Breakdown

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 - 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theater. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."

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