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Anton Chekhov


Born
in Taganrog, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire
January 29, 1860

Died
July 15, 1904

Genre

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов ) 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 Morozova, 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 Moscow fol
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Quotes by Anton Chekhov  (?)
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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
Anton Chekhov

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
Anton Chekhov

Polls

February 2018 Short Story Poll

 
  57 votes, 17.4%

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, 1904, 96 pages
 
  53 votes, 16.2%

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1848, 82 pages
 
  34 votes, 10.4%

Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1890, 54 pages.
 
  29 votes, 8.8%

Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich, 1942, 47 pages
 
  27 votes, 8.2%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 1941, 104 pages
 
  26 votes, 7.9%

 
  26 votes, 7.9%

 
  23 votes, 7.0%

 
  19 votes, 5.8%

 
  15 votes, 4.6%

Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 1936, 115 pages
 
  10 votes, 3.0%

The Eyes by Edith Wharton, 1910 48 pages
 
  9 votes, 2.7%

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