Ward Number Six and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

2021-01-09 03:42:42

Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov - himself a country doctor - recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories collected here are a bleakly savage indictment of a society paralysed by spiritual... Read more
Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov - himself a country doctor - recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories collected here are a bleakly savage indictment of a society paralysed by spiritual malaise, and morbidly conscious of evilswhich can neither be killed nor cured.This volume also contains an Introduction by Ronald Hingley. Less

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File size7.72 X 5.08 X 0.47 in
Print pages272
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date November 7, 2008
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780199553891
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 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 a...

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