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    The Beggar & Other Short Stories (Volume 9): Short story compilations from arguably the greatest short story writer ever.
    The Beggar & Other Short Stories (Volume 9): Short story compilations from arguably the greatest short story writer ever.
    The Beggar & Other Short Stories (Volume 9): Short story compilations from arguably the greatest short story writer ever.
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    The Beggar & Other Short Stories (Volume 9): Short story compilations from arguably the greatest short story writer ever.

    By Anton Chekhov

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    The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. A widespread favourite of scholars, critics and causal readers alike, Anton Chekhov is one of the most challenging and enjoyable authors to read. Both a doctor and writer, Chekhov initially had little interest in literature, writing predominantly as a source of income. As recognition of his talents spread so his ambition grew he began to assert itself and history now acknowledges him as the greatest short story writer of all time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateAug 20, 2013
    ISBN9781780009025
    The Beggar & Other Short Stories (Volume 9): Short story compilations from arguably the greatest short story writer ever.
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    Anton Chekhov

    Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 in Southern Russia and moved to Moscow to study medicine. Whilst at university he sold short stories and sketches to magazines to raise money to support his family. His success and acclaim grew as both a writer of fiction and of plays whilst he continued to practice medicine. Ill health forced him to move from his country estate near Moscow to Yalta where he wrote some of his most famous work, and it was there that he married actress Olga Knipper. He died from tuberculosis in 1904.

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      The Beggar & Other Short Stories (Volume 9) - Anton Chekhov

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      In the hospital yard there stands a small lodge surrounded by a perfect forest of burdocks, nettles, and wild hemp. Its roof is rusty, the chimney is tumbling down, the steps at the front-door are rotting away and overgrown with grass, and there are only traces left of the stucco. The front of the lodge faces the hospital; at the back it looks out into the open country, from which it is separated by the grey hospital fence with nails on it. These nails, with their points upwards, and the fence, and the lodge itself, have that peculiar, desolate, God-forsaken look which is only found in our hospital and prison buildings.

      If you are not afraid of being stung by the nettles, come by the narrow footpath that leads to the lodge, and let us see what is going on inside. Opening the first door, we walk into the

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