Anton Chekhov. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Jan 2. Jul 1. 5, 1. 90. 4) was a Russian physician and supreme short story writer and playwright. He was the third of six children. His father was a grocer, painter and religious fanatic with a mercurial temperament who .
Chekhov, like Dickens, was no stranger to financial hardship and in 1. Moscow to escape creditors. Chekhov stayed behind for three more years to finish school. He paid for his tuition by catching and selling goldfinches and dispensing private tutoring lessons, and selling short sketches to the newspaper.
He sent any money he could spare money to his family in Moscow. A child- family separation theme plays out in several of Chekhov stories including Vanka, The Steppe, and Sleepy. In 1. 87. 9 Chekhov was admitted to medical school and he joined his family in Moscow. He assumed financial responsibility for the family and while attending classes at Moscow State University he wrote and sold a large number of humorous stories and vignettes of contemporary Russian life. He published more than 4. Some consider Chekhov to be the founder of the modern short story and his influence is observed in a diverse group of writers including Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams, Somerset Maugham, Raymond Carver and John Cheever. Most of the English- speaking world knows him as a playwright, particularly for The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard.
Some popular starting points for short story readers include, Ward No. The Darling and Gusev, The Hunstman and The Lady with the Little Dog. A Dreary Story is also an excellent work.
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Due to it's length I have classified it here as a book. It's also well known under the alternative title A Boring Story which is the title listed in the short story section as a convenience to readers searching under that name.
Anton Chekhov himself was personally fond of his short story The Student. In 1. 89. 7 Chekhov was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
A list of (nearly) all the literary and non-literary quotations, pre-quotations, allusions, echoes, and borrowings to be found in Patrick O'Brian's 'Canon'. Page numbers are those of the HarperCollins edition.
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He purchased land in Yalta in 1. He moved into the villa in 1. This was a very prolific period for the great writer and he produced some of his most famous work during this period.
Amongst those works is a trilogoy featuring Ivan Ivanovitch, a veterinary surgeon and his schoolmaster friend, Burkin. The two are on a small trekking and shooting holiday. Chekhov overlays three stories that are amongst his most famous short stories in a trilogy sometimes referred to as . The three short stories, in order, are: The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, and About Love. It was also during this period in Yalta that he produced Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. Witty to the end, Chekhov's last words were.