The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1
18821885

A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best shortstory writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhovs stories are often noted for their streamofconsciousness style and their vast number. Raymond Carver once said, It is not only the immense number of stories he wrotefor few, if any, writers have ever done moreit is the awesome frequency with which he produced masterpieces, stories that shrive us as well as delight and move us, that lay bare our emotions in ways only true art can accomplish.In The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume 1: 18821885, Blackstone has compiled fortyone of Chekhovs delightful short stories: A Living Chattel, Joy, At the Barbers, An Enigmatic Nature, A Classical Student, The Death of a Government Clerk, The Trousseau, A Daughter of Albion, An Inquiry, Fat and Thin, A Tragic Actor, The Bird Market, A Slander, The Swedish Match, Choristers, The Album, Minds in Ferment, A Chameleon, In the Graveyard, Oysters, The Marshals Widow, Small Fry, In an Hotel, Boots, Nerves, A Country Cottage, Malingerers, The Fish, Gone Astray, The Huntsman, A Malefactor, The Head of the Family, A Dead Body, The Cooks Wedding, In a Strange Land, Overdoing It, Old Age, Sorrow, Oh! The Public!, Mari dElle, and The LookingGlass.