

About Love and Other Stories
Author: Anton Chekhov, Rosamund Bartlett
Narrator: Adam Grupper, Henry Strozier, T. Ryder Smith
Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/21/2014
Author: Anton Chekhov, Rosamund Bartlett
Narrator: Adam Grupper, Henry Strozier, T. Ryder Smith
Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/21/2014
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian short story writer, playwright, and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics-The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard-and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics alike. Initially, Chekhov wrote stories solely for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations that have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them. Chekhov published over a hundred short stories, including "The Duel," "In Exile," "On Official Business," "The Bishop," and "The Cobbler and the Devil."
Before being a successful playwright, Chekhov was an extraordinarily prolific and influential author of short stories: several hundred of them in the span of twenty years. This collection includes only a dozen of his most famous stories, presented chronologically, which provides a beautiful cross-se......more
Recently, someone asked me who I thought the most overrated writer is. I answered, somewhat flippantly, Margaret Atwood. After reading the first five stories in this collection I decided I would change my answer to Chekhov. I was astonished just how dreary I found them. He was the favourite writer o......more
Chekhov describes a character or a scene just enough to let the reader cleanly infer what’s being indicated. His descriptions are never overstated or garish; always subtle, wavering, whimsical, but precise. He lets his stories tell themselves somehow, getting out of the way when he should. And the d......more
A lot of short stories, a lot of descriprions of the settings, the clothes, the seasons, and the people of course. Old people, young people, clergy, peasants, artists and even a love stricken carp. After all the build up the stories fizzle out to an abrupt, hasty ending which I find disappointing. I a......more