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This book includes Chekhov's works from 1880-1885, i.e. humoresques, short stories, and sketches, starting with Letters to a Learned Neighbor, which Chekhov considered the beginning of his literary career.
The story of Gogol is a story of tragic talent, mysticism and madness, of a manuscript that burned, of a nose and an overcoat, of an auditor and dead souls.
There is no doubt that it is most attractive to read The Call to Execution as it appears to be written, as an anti-utopian or anti-totalitarian novel...
The third volume of Collected Works contains Chekhov's most extensive novella, "A Drama in Hunting," as well as a number of longer stories from the period 1885-1886. There are humoresques such as Silo in a Bag, Eh, That Audience, and A Lot of Paper, as we
The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall
A satirical search for hidden treasure in post-revolutionary Russia. Former nobleman Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov and con artist Ostap Bender chase after valuables, exposing the greed and absurdities of Soviet society.