The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
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About This Book
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern Russia, he attended Moscow University to study medicine, writing short stories for periodicals in order to support his family. What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St. Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. Chekhov began paying more attention to his writing, revising and developing his own principles and conceptions of truth, for a time coming under the influence of Leo Tolstoy. As a result of h...
Chapters (41)
- THE TALES OF CHEKHOV
- Volume 11
- THE SCHOOLMASTER AND OTHER STORIES
- Translated by Constance Garnett
- THE SCHOOLMASTER
- ENEMIES
- THE EXAMINING MAGISTRATE
- BETROTHED
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- FROM THE DIARY OF A VIOLENT-TEMPERED MAN
- IN THE DARK
- A PLAY
- A MYSTERY
- STRONG IMPRESSIONS
- DRUNK
- THE MARSHAL’S WIDOW
- A BAD BUSINESS
- “WHO goes there?”
- IN THE COURT
- BOOTS
- JOY
- IT was twelve o’clock at night.
- LADIES
- A PECULIAR MAN
- AT THE BARBER’S
- AN INADVERTENCE
- THE ALBUM
- OH! THE PUBLIC
- A TRIPPING TONGUE
- OVERDOING IT
- THE ORATOR
- MALINGERERS
- IN THE GRAVEYARD
- HUSH!
- IN AN HOTEL
- IN A STRANGE LAND
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