Lady with lapdog, and other stories
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Lady with lapdog, and other stories
(Penguin classics)
Penguin, 1964
- :pbk.
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov(1860-1904) may be likened to his contemporaries, the "pointilliste" painters. Piece by piece, episode by episode, character by character, he constructs in prose a survey of the human condition. as David Magarshack writes in his introduction, on reading these stories 'one gets the impression of holding life itself, like a fluttering bird, in one's cupped hands'.
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