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The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories, Classics To Go

Anton Chekhov’s The house with the mezzanine (A Painter’s story)(1896) revolves around a rather despondent landscape painter staying on a friend’s estate who gets into contact with a mother and her two quite different daughters, Lydia (Lida) and Zhenya (Missyuss) Volchaninova, living on a neighbouring estate, in the titular house with the mezzanine. (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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