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The Comic Stories
About this book
The first substantial volume in English devoted solely to the full range of Chekhov's comic mastery-forty stories in all, employing a variety of techniques and twists, and all with a sense of fun and infectious good humor. Tolstoy, who disliked Chekhov's plays, was reduced to helpless fits of laughter by his comic stories. Translated from the Russian and with an Introduction by Harvey Pitcher. Penetrating social satire and trenchant character analysis....In story after story, Chekhov displays techniques-especially the use of a few telling details to suggest a whole-that he would later employ to stunning effect. -Philip Gambone, New York Times Book Review
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- He Quarrelled with his Wife
- Notes from the Memoirs of a Man of Ideals
- A Dreadful Night
- From the Diary of an Assistant Book-keeper
- An Incident at Law
- The Daughter of Albion
- Foiled!
- A Woman Without Prejudices
- The Complaints Book
- The Swedish Match
- Rapture
- Vint
- On the Telephone
- Romance with Double-Bass
- The Death of a Civil Servant
- Overdoing It
- Surgery
- In the Dark
- Kashtanka
- Grisha
- Fat and Thin
- The Objet d’Art
- A Horsy Name
- At the Bath-house
- The Chameleon
- Revenge
- The Orator
- The Exclamation Mark
- Notes from the Journal of a Quick-tempered Man
- A Man of Ideas
- The Siren
- The Burbot
- The Civil Service Exam
- Boys
- A Drama
- The Malefactor
- No Comment
- Sergeant Prishibeyev
- Encased
- The Darling
- Notes