Anton Chekhov Short Stories
A Seven-Day Gateway to Chekhov's Quiet, Unforgettable Fiction
Ordinary lives. Extraordinary insight. Nothing is quite resolved.
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Chekhov's stories don't announce themselves. There's no explosion, no chase, no twist you can see coming from the first page. What there is instead: a banker who bets his freedom on fifteen years of solitude, a brother whose dream of quiet contentment curdles into something like blindness, a man so afraid of the world he tries to seal himself away from it entirely.
Together they trace what might be Chekhov's great subject: how people live with truths they can't quite bear to use, and what it costs them to keep looking away. Chekhov is often credited as the writer who shaped the modern short story — if you've ever loved quiet, character-driven fiction, you've felt his influence.
Inside this volume
- The Bet
- Gooseberries
- The Man in a Case
- The Lady with the Dog
- The Kiss
- The Bishop
- Sleepy
Every volume includes
- Seven complete short stories, one for each day
- A reading note before each story, so you're never reading blind
- An introduction to the author and where they sit in literary history
- Discussion questions built in — for reflection or group use
- An annotated guide to what to read next
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