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No. 1 – A Woman’s Kingdom
This novella is No. 1 in my completely nonscientific ranking of all of Anton Chekhov’s fiction. What makes it so great? What places it ahead of all the other stories and novellas that Chekhov produced during his brief life? Well, let’s look at the story itself for one minute. The “kingdom” of the title refers…
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13 Ways of Looking at Anton Chekhov
One: The Doctor Chekhov graduated from medical college in 1884. He was 24 years old and he already was gaining a name as a writer of smart, barbed stories and anecdotes. His success as a writer wasn’t merely literary: He was making decent money from his stories, enough to support his large and chaotic family–parents,…
A Chekhov Circus
A guide to the short stories of Anton Chekhov
A Chekhov Circus 