Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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'.

And Other Stories

Lady with Lapdog

Rowena Wiseman

Almost everything one needs to know about life is contained in these pages.

Kwan Ann Tan

some stories were more interesting than others, i get that this book is a product of its time but sometimes the misogyny just bored me- we got it after the first few stories, you can stop the tired narrative of the hysterical woman thank you ! 

'a boring story' was an interesting look at the perspective of an academic vs his theatrical step sister, ariadne was like a watered down anna karenina reversed && you can DEFINITELY see how some modern tropes (manic pixie girl, fitzgerald's flapper girls) are basically present in nearly all of literature nowhere is safe from them !!

Lady with Lapdog And Other Stories

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