The Woman in the Case and other stories

Translated by April Fitzlyon and Kyril Zinovieff

Author:

Anton Chekhov

New Paperback | 224 pp.
ISBN: 9781847490810

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This collection of Chekhov's lesser-known short stories – ranging from absurd humorous sketches to psychological pieces and tragedies – demonstrates his mastery of the genre.

Although varying in tone and purpose, what these tales have in common is a profound and subtle understanding of the human condition, in its farcical and melancholy aspects, coupled with Chekhov’s trademark minimalist style.

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Anton Chekhov is one of the giants of modern literature, exerting a strong influence on many present-day novelists and dramatists. As a playwright, he ranks in popularity second only to Shakespeare in the English-speaking world. As a prose writer, he was one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and his anti-heroic realism, full of ambiguity and allusion, provides no easy moral conclusions and results in a new kind of narrative approaching real life in a way no writer had achieved before him.