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Between 1892, when "The Fragment", the first novella in this book, was published, and "The Peasant" (1897) and "On the Carts" (1897), A. P. Chekhov made a series of other artistically successful observations of the society in which he lived.
The work depicts the process of creating a literary hero and mocks bureaucracy, superficiality, and the artificial creation of "ideal" stories according to predetermined rules.
The fifth book in a row of works by this great classic of Russian humor contains mainly his literary work from 1887. In this volume, the reader will find a number of already celebrated and well-known, as well as a large number of previously unpublished no
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
Notes from a Dead Home (1860-1862) - a novel based on the author's imprisonment in Siberia. Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863) - an essay from a trip to Europe in 1862. Notes from the Underworld (1864) is a philosophical novel about a man torn by i
The fourth volume of Chekhov's works contains novellas and humoresques, which were mostly written in 1886. Still writing for a fee in daily newspapers, Chekhov often had to subordinate his art to comprehensibility and cheap humor due to the taste of the r