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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895

by Anton Chekhov, Ronald Wilks (Translator), J. Douglas Clayton (Introduction)

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Impressionistic and bold, the nine stories in this collection frame the middle period of Chekhov's career. Exploring both complicated and intense emotions, Chekhov presents a world without simple answers or universal truths. "Ward No. 6" is a savage indictment of the medical profession. "The Black Monk," the story of a scholar who has strange hallucinat...more

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Published May 30th 2002 by Penguin Classics (first published September 1st 1892)

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Jan 24, 2012

Linda Ruzics rated it

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I have always hated short stories and Chekhov has cured me. From the first "The Cook's Wedding" and on I am mesmerized. The author can take any universal theme and work magic in a few pages while I have been reading books doing the same thing sometines badly in over 800 pages. Granted with most authors you are happy to read that many pages but with Chekhov it it satisfying that he addressed ad...more

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Sep 25, 2011

Patrick McCoy rated it

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Last month when I was reading Gary Shteyngart’s entertaining Super Sad True Love Story, he made a reference to an Anton Chekhov short story that I was unfamiliar with, “Three Lives.” So I sought out the collection it was in, Ward No.6 and Other Stories and read it. However, since I’ve read only a couple of his stories in anthologies over the years I decided to read the rest of the stories in the collection. Overall, I think he has a great ability to describe people and their shortcomings and con...moreLast month when I was reading Gary Shteyngart’s entertaining Super Sad True Love Story, he made a reference to an Anton Chekhov short story that I was unfamiliar with, “Three Lives.” So I sought out the collection it was in, Ward No.6 and Other Stories and read it. However, since I’ve read only a couple of his stories in anthologies over the years I decided to read the rest of the stories in the collection. Overall, I think he has a great ability to describe people and their shortcomings and contradictions as well as capture the way they talk about their hopes and dreams. Thus many of the stories are timeless in how they chronicle the things that makes us all human-love, hate, envy, hope, dreams, and fears. However, Chekov is also adept at drawing a picture of life in a family run factory (in “A Woman’s Kingdom”) or the workings of a late 19th century insane asylum (in “Ward No.6”). Mental health is another theme in another short story, “The Black Monk.” But I tend to be drawn to the stories of love or failed love like “The Grasshopper” about a capricious doctor’s wife and her shallow affair with an artist, meditations on pure love in “Arindna,” the story of mismatched love in “Three Lives,” and the story of a cuckold’s wives minor obsession with an aunt (a fallen woman) who becomes a nun in “The Two Volodyas.” This collection has what has been said to be Chekov’s favorite story, “The Student,” which is a sort of religious story where a student has an epiphany where he feels a strong feeling of goodwill and hope among the peasants through is brief contact with them on a cold night. It is easy to see why Chekhov is considered one of the great Russian writers in the same league as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Then again this would be true if he had only been a playwright as well as one of the masters of the short story. The Penguin edition has an enlightening and informative introduction and competent notes throughout he stories.(less)

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Jul 28, 2011

Anatoli added it · review of another edition

"El pabellón número 6"

Parece ser que Dostoyevski decía, de manera pragmática e irónica, que sólo sabía que no estaba loco porque no estaba encerrado en un manicomio. Chejov, en este extraordinario relato, nos sumerge en el inquietante carácter ubicuo de la locura al que la sociedad intenta hacer frente mediante el levantamiento de barreras que delimitan lo normal, lo racional, lo moralmente aceptable frente a lo Otro de la locura, una fuerza oscura aún no configurada por los mecanismos...more"El pabellón número 6"

Parece ser que Dostoyevski decía, de manera pragmática e irónica, que sólo sabía que no estaba loco porque no estaba encerrado en un manicomio. Chejov, en este extraordinario relato, nos sumerge en el inquietante carácter ubicuo de la locura al que la sociedad intenta hacer frente mediante el levantamiento de barreras que delimitan lo normal, lo racional, lo moralmente aceptable frente a lo Otro de la locura, una fuerza oscura aún no configurada por los mecanismos de poder social y por lo tanto peligrosa en tanto que factor perturbador del orden establecido potencialmente subversivo. El carácter discrecional del límite se pone de manifiesto en el personaje del médico, que pasa de ser la figura de autoridad en el pabellón a convertirse en un paciente más sometido al trato vejatorio del guardián. La señal de advertencia es clara: quien se atreva a indagar en las razones de la locura, quien socave los fundamentos de nuestra tranquilidad de conciencia perderá los privilegios de los normales y será encerrado con el estigma de loco.

La narración se abre a la manera clásica chejoviana, mediante sutiles pinceladas que muestran los conflictos morales (o su ausencia) en el interior de los personajes y plantean los claroscuros y las contradicciones de la realidad social. En las conversaciones entre el loco ilustrado y el médico (dos personajes quijotescos infectados por la enfermedad de la lectura) se desarrolla una vibrante lucha (¿de clases?) entre una actitud contemplativa hacia la vida y otra de transformación a través de la actividad política. Chejov es de una claridad absoluta a la hora de sacar a la luz lo que P. Bourdieu define como las condiciones de posibilidad social de la mirada contemplativa: el teórico puede mirar a la realidad de manera no comprometida porque “nunca ha sufrido; no ha hecho otra cosa que nutrirse de los sufrimientos ajenos, como una sanguijuela” y lo hace para defender sus intereses de clase porque esta “filosofía es la que más conviene a un haragán ruso”. Pero estamos a finales del siglo XIX y la conciencia de la clase oprimida empieza a despertarse y sin complejo de inferioridad afirma el encerrado que se considera “superior y más competente que usted [el médico] en todos los sentidos. No puede usted darme lecciones”. Y va aún más lejos afirmando, de forma visionaria y exaltada, que “resplandecerá la aurora de una nueva vida, la verdad triunfará y también nosotros tendremos motivos de celebración”. Entendemos por qué este relato impresionara en su tiempo al joven Lenin...

Pero lo más fascinante está por llegar porque en el desenlace de la narración el autor parece perder el control de sí mismo. Ese orden, ese equilibrio tan chejoviano en el que todo más que mostrarse se insinúa en su justa medida, se derrumba arrastrado por el torrente angustioso de la narración y el relato se transforma en una pesadilla misteriosa y escalofriante. Chejov convertido en Poe. El médico, engañado, es conducido al pabellón y allí se le encierra. Se entiende, el límite entre lo normal y lo otro es tan arbitrario e injusto que necesita de la astucia y del engaño para ejercerse. Pero el pabellón ya no es sólo el lugar del encierro en vida sino también la antesala de la muerte inminente. El médico desespera, intenta mostrar resistencia (me recuerda a esos relatos de Poe en los que se interesa por el intersticio entre la vida y la muerte, los últimos movimientos del cuerpo ya fallecido que se descubren al exhumar los cadáveres), pero ya está del otro lado, es un loco y casi un muerto, y no obtiene más que los golpes del guardián (el mismo guardián…) como respuesta. Entonces su compañero le hace comprender y al mismo tiempo le sentencia: “lo más ofensivo es que la vida no termina con una recompensa por los sufrimientos padecidos ni con una apoteosis, como en la ópera, sino con la muerte; vendrán los celadores, cogerán el cadáver por los pies y por las manos y lo llevarán al sótano”. Chejov otra vez Chejov, sobrio, concluye. “Llegaron unos celadores, lo cogieron por los brazos y por las piernas y se lo llevaron a la capilla”.

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Feb 28, 2010

R.a. rated it

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I just can't say enough. Probably THE ONE, truly, who impacted 20th century writing style. His philosophy toward the craft is quite interesting whether one agrees or not.

One can see Chekhov in Mansfield's writings, as well.

The intro's, just from a purely writing POV, are subject for study and admiration for any writer. Situation, character, and tone usually are established with one line.

The scene with "the pickle" in Ward No. 8 st...more Wow !
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Sep 28, 2010

Neil Crossan rated it

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I am naturally drawn to the negative. It’s a character trait that I have been trying to change over the last decade. But this gravity towards the negative has had one positive impact, when I give props, you can rest assured that it is from the heart. And I’m going to give a props, but not to Anton Chekhov. My Dad is a lover of the good short story and has passed that onto me and in this day of mass produced James Patterson and DiVinci Code spin offs, the short story has been relegated to the loc...more

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Jul 26, 2009

Bird Brian rated it

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Shelves: russia, literature-19th-century

I'm not sure everybody in this section is reviewing the same book. Some other reviews make mention of there being twenty stories in the compilation. I read the Oxford World's Classics edition, ISBN 0-19-283733-8, which comprises seven stories:
THE BUTTERFLY
WARD NUMBER SIX
ARIADNE
A DREARY STORY
NEIGHBORS
AN ANONYMOUS STORY and
DOCTOR STARTSEV

These are not upbeat tales. I guess the common thread running through them is a very life-weary feel. Chek...moreI'm not sure everybody in this section is reviewing the same book. Some other reviews make mention of there being twenty stories in the compilation. I read the Oxford World's Classics edition, ISBN 0-19-283733-8, which comprises seven stories:
THE BUTTERFLY
WARD NUMBER SIX
ARIADNE
A DREARY STORY
NEIGHBORS
AN ANONYMOUS STORY and
DOCTOR STARTSEV

These are not upbeat tales. I guess the common thread running through them is a very life-weary feel. Chekov does a good job depicting the hardships of 19th century Russia.

The title story concerns itself with country doctor Ragin who would rather talk philosophy with mental patients in Ward Six than round on his other cases. Enter an upstart new doctor Khobotov fresh from the city, who covets Ragin's easy practice. Over time, townspeople start to wonder whether Ragin's prolonged association with the mental patients signifies that he himself may actually be mentally ill. The brilliance of the storytelling is in the uncertainties... could Ragin actually be mentally ill? is this a ploy by Khobotov to usurp Ragin's appointment? is Averanovich Ragin's friend or foe? Although this parable is quite short (47 pages), the complexities running through it are more like what I would expect from a much longer work.

"The Butterfly" and "Ariadne" and "An Anonymouys Story" are cautionary tales about romances built on poor foundations. "Doctor Startsev" is a variation on this theme- a romance which had potential, but which was never allowed to blossom.

In "A Dreary Story", an accomplished academic looks back on his career with disillusionment, and contempt for most of his peers. In that respect, it reminds me of that old movie "The Browning Version". Unfortunately, "Dreary Story" is, in fact, dreary - and offers none of the uplifting redemption that "Browning Version" does.

If you liked Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories: the Raid Woodfelling Three Deaths Polikushka the Death of Ivan Ilyich after the Ball the Forged Coupon, you should enjoy these selections.(less)

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Apr 10, 2011

Dick Edwards rated it

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The title story concerns itself with country doctor Ragin who would rather talk philosophy with mental patients in Ward Six than round on his other cases. Enter an upstart new doctor Khobotov fresh from the city, who covets Ragin's easy practice. Over time, townspeople start to wonder whether Ragin's prolonged association with the mental patients signifies that he himself may actually be mentally ill. The brilliance of the storytelling is in the uncertainties... could Ragin actually be mentally ...more

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Oct 31, 2008

Tim rated it

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Shelves: literature, short-story-collections, contemporary-fiction

I've learned a lot from reading Chekhov over the past few weeks in terms of how short stories work. It seems in modern short stories action happens quickly and the author comes speeding toward the endpoint from the first sentence. There are workshops devoted to crafting that first sentence even. Other times, there are these "slice of life" stories which tend to be a little, well for lack of a better word, boring. Chekhov could fall under that category, except there tends to be more...more

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Mar 01, 2008

John rated it

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This collection of short stories was recommended to me through another book that I had read (Prose) that was loosely about how writers write, and how to better appreciate their craft. This collection was wonderful, and understandably well recommended.
Although they may prove a less satisfying read if one is desirous of a vibrant plot, Checkov's shorts are a tour de force of non-judgemental observation of human nature. His descriptions of people, and to a lesser extent their surr...more

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Feb 22, 2008

Sandra rated it

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I found the majority of the short stories in this book to be mediocre and boring, interspersed with some poignant statements. My favorite story was the title story, "Ward No. 6" though there was no suspense. I knew what was going to happen early on.

The benefit of reading short stories is that the story is over quick and you get to move on. I felt that the book dragged the first half. After "Ward No. 6" it picked up. The stories are arranged in this particular...more

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Nov 26, 2007

Bart rated it

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Recommends it for: Short fiction readers

This selection of Chekhov's short stories is notable for making Chekhov's best stories seem so good. Part of this effect is accomplished by mixing in a few of Chekhov's lesser stories which, though never exceeding 12 pages, seem to require five hour stretches to get through.

When Chekhov is on, though, he's unbeatable. "The Witch", "The Grasshopper", "The Darling" and "The Lady with the Dog" compose a quartet of stories that arguably no writer...more

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Jun 28, 2010

John rated it

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I enjoy short stories, this is an excellent choice for that form and Chekhov is the master. Some claim Chekhov was "obsessed with the dreariness of life." Yes, he does write with a certain darkness and continues a theme of the powerlessness of human nature. His portrayals depict the vast simplicity of life and include no grand events or characters either but like reality create the inexorable struggles as his characters proceed from one day to the next. These Russian authors are always...more

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Apr 24, 2010

Deb rated it

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Chekhov's versatility within the short story is very impressive. In this collection, his characters range from elderly peasants to a two year-old, yet each "slice of life" character development lacks nothing. It is clear Chekhov was a keen observer of society in his time. The storylines are good too( good in the typical miserable Russian fashion, with a little insanity thrown in here and there), and somewhat predictable yet suspenseful in a Twilight Zone kind of way.

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Jan 05, 2009

Chris rated it

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"Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people - always slow to move and irresolute - every intimacy, which at first so agreeably diversifies life and appears a light and charming adventure, inevitably grows into a regular problem of extreme intricacy, and in the long run the situation becomes unbearable. But at every fresh meeting with an interesting woman this experience seemed to slip out of his memory, and h...more

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Mar 27, 2010

Marge rated it

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I saw the film "Ward No.6," which was devastating and gripping, and then I ordered this book of stories. When I read Chekhov, which is always pure pleasure, I am struck by how contemporary his themes, his characters and their problems, his world view all feel to me. I read all the Chekhov I could lay my hands on about 20 years ago, and, having read this, I want to re-read everything. My favorite genius!

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Aug 10, 2011

Sean rated it

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Good grief! Why has it taken me so long to get around to reading Mr. Chekhov's fiction?! We read some of his plays in high school, but for some reason his short fiction was deemed unworthy of our young hungry eyes. What tragedy! Having now read these stories, I am hard-pressed to imagine so many of my favorite modern short story writers writing the way they did and do without the existence of Mr. Chekhov and his "stories where nothing happens." It has always seemed to me that Russian w...more

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Aug 09, 2011

Ryan Milbrath added it · review of another edition

I have not read many short story authors, but Chekhov struck a chord with me as one the best. Ward Six, In the Ravine, My Life, a Dull Story all show an uncomprimising, often depressing view of life and redemption. Though in his career Chekhov wrote a lot that did not possess the quality of his later works, his best stand among the great Russian writers.

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Nov 08, 2009

Maziar rated it

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I keep telling myself if this guy and Khaled Hosseini are doctors and made books this good, surely I will be a great novelist one day... ... ... NOT. Seriously though this is a fantastic collection of stories, especially Ward No. 6, you can definitely see his clinical observation and awareness of the 'ordinary' in his writing, and his storytelling keeps you reading.

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Oct 13, 2009

Deb rated it

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There is no more humane and compassionate writer than Chekhov. In spite of recent and more accurate translations, Constance Garnett's remain the gold standard for Chekhov at least. There is a wonderful fluidity and specificity to her use of language. The Russian mind and landscape rendered in lucid and lovely English prose.

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Dec 27, 2010

Roselle is currently reading it · review of another edition

he's the best short story writer i've read, drawing idiosyncratic characters and their effect in the world with seemless ease and utter poinience. This 19C writing continues to be absolutely relevant since human psychology is his subject and enquiry. masterful.

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Jan 08, 2009

Jennifer rated it

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Chekhov is all about character development with no plot. That would be OK if all of his characters weren't amoral. I am reminded why Russian writers are not my favorite. Out of 23 stories I would say that only two had any redeeming quality at all.

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Nov 08, 2011

Matthew Berkshire rated it

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The book is well written, but Chekhov can be a little depressing. I see some similarities between Turgenev, but I found this less readable. However, while I didn't enjoy the read I recognize the merit and am glad for the experience.

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Jun 29, 2011

Julia rated it

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I like to dip into this sometimes when I'm feeling pretty alright about things, just to remind myself of life's unrelenting hopelessness and the inevitability of suffering and death. Thanks Anton!

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Aug 31, 2011

Allegra rated it

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Excellent but depressing. No more or less than what you'd expect from a Russian, I suppose. There is an exquisite story told from the perspective of a little boy that is worth the read.

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Mar 22, 2011

Emilie is currently reading it · review of another edition

started a while ago, decided I can't read Chekhov in the winter, must wait for warmer weather . . . look for updates this spring!

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Feb 21, 2010

Alex added it · review of another edition

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) by Anton Chekhov (2003)

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Dec 07, 2011

Mohsen Rajabi rated it

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اتاق شماره شش، بی نظیرترین داستان کوتاهی بود که تا به حال خوندم

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Sep 09, 2011

David rated it

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I'm reading this as I'll be working on a new play soon based on Ward No 6 and other stories. So far it's great reading

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Jun 15, 2009

Brian rated it

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Anton Chekhov changed my life. I loved this collection of stories. I've noticed that there is another volume out available through B&N, but other than "Ward 6" non of the other storied are the same. Included in this collection were "My Life", "A Dull Story", "The Duel", "the Name Day Party" and "In the Ravine."

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Feb 06, 2012

Mike rated it

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Feared the ending on ward no. 6 somewhere in the middle, loved the way the author put me in the picture.

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About Anton Chekhov

Антон Павлович Чехов

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, southern Russia, the son of a grocer. Chekhov's grandfather was a serf, who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught himself to read and write.Yevgenia Morozov, Chekhov's mother, was the daughter of a cloth merchant.

"When I think back on my childh...moreАнтон Павлович Чехов

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, southern Russia, the son of a grocer. Chekhov's grandfather was a serf, who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught himself to read and write.Yevgenia Morozov, Chekhov's mother, was the daughter of a cloth merchant.

"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." His early years were shadowed by his father's tyranny, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, which was open from five in the morning till midnight. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog (1867-68) and Taganrog grammar school (1868-79). The family was forced to move to Moskow following his father's bankruptcy. At the age of 16, Chekhov became independent and remained for some time alone in his native town, supporting himself through private tutoring.

In 1879 Chekhov entered the Moskow University Medical School. While in the school, he began to publish hundreds of comic short stories to support himself and his mother, sisters and brothers. His publisher at this period was Nicholas Leikin, owner of the St. Petersburg journal Oskolki (splinters). His subjects were silly social situations, marital problems, farcical encounters between husbands, wives, mistresses, and lovers, whims of young women, of whom Chekhov had not much knowledge – the author was was shy with women even after his marriage. His works appeared in St. Petersburg daily papers, Peterburskaia gazeta from 1885, and Novoe vremia from 1886.

Chekhov's first novel, Nenunzhaya pobeda (1882), set in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Hungarian writer Mór Jókai. As a politician Jókai was also mocked for his ideological optimism. By 1886 Chekhov had gained a wide fame as a writer. His second full-length novel, The Shooting Party, was translated into English in 1926. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926).

Chekhov graduated in 1884, and practiced medicine until 1892. In 1886 Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him to become a regular contributor for the St. Petersburg daily Novoe vremya. His friendship with Suvorin ended in 1898 because of his objections to the anti-Dreyfus campaingn conducted by paper. But during these years Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgemental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion."

Chekhov's fist book of stories (1886) was a success, and gradually he became a full-time writer. The author's refusal to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intellitentsia and he was criticized for dealing with serious social and moral questions, but avoiding giving answers. However, he was defended by such leading writers as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.

The failure of his play The Wood Demon (1889) and problems with his novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890 he travelled across Siberia to remote prison island, Sakhalin. There he conducted a detailed census of some 10,000 convicts and settlers condemned to live their lives on that harsh island. Chekhov hoped to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. It is probable that hard conditions on the island also worsened his own physical condition. From this journey was born his famous travel book The Island: A Journey to Sakhalin (1893-94). Chekhov returned to Russia via Singa(less)

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“I reflected how many satisfied, happy people there really are! What a suffocating force it is! You look at life: the insolence and idleness of the strong, the ignorance and brutishness of the weak, incredible poverty all about us, overcrowding, degeneration, drunkenness, hypocrisy, lying... Yet all is calm and stillness in the houses and in the streets; of the fifty thousand living in a town, there s not one who would cry out, who would give vent to his indignation aloud. We see the people going to market for provisions, eating by day, sleeping by night, talking their silly nonsense, getting married, growing old, serenely escorting their dead to the cemetery; but we do not see and we do not hear those who suffer, and what is terrible in life goes on somewhere behind the scenes...Everything is so quiet and peaceful, and nothing protests but mute statistics: so many people gone out of their minds, so many gallons of vodka drunk, so many children dead from malnutrition... And this order of things s evidently necessary; evidently the happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burdens in silence, and without that silence happiness would be impossible.” — 8 people liked it

“The strong must hinder the weak from living -- such was the law of Nature; but only in a newspaper article or in a school book was that intelligible and easily accepted. In the hotchpotch which was everyday life, in the tangle of trivialities out of which human relations were woven, it was no longer a law, but a logical absurdity, when the strong and the weak were both equally victims of their mutual relations, unwillingly submitting to some directing force, unknown, standing outside life, apart from man” — 1 person liked it

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