Contributor(s): Author: Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov was a master of the short story.
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Twenty-eight Stories are collected here in the "Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov" including many of the author\'s most popular shorter works.
As a result of his widespread popularity, Chekhov amassed a vast collection of short Stories displaying an early use of stream-of-consciousness writing, as well as his powerful ideas concerning the individual, the tedium of life, and the beauty of nature and humanity.
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.
Petersburg for the Novoye Vremya (New Times), owned by publishing magnate Alexey Suvorin.
What began as a necessity became a legitimate career in 1886 when he was asked to write in St.
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.
Contributor(s): Author: Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov was a master of the short story
