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The Black Monk, and Other Stories, Classics To Go

Chekov seems to me the prime example of the writer who writes without tricks... and his stories always come alive and are most original & varied, and impossible to imitate... tho he has influenced many. The Black Monk presents a problem written about by many... but Chekhov does it without using a single word of the condescending diagnostic vocabulary... so that the character, & what enlightens & torments him, transcend the condition from which he can be said to suffer. (Goodreads)

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."

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