Ward Number Six and Other Stories
by Anton Chekhov
2021-01-09 03:42:42
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...
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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.
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