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Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov - himself a country doctor - recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories collected here are a bleakly savage indictment of a society paralysed by spiritual malaise, and morbidly conscious of evils which can neither be killed nor cured.
This volume also contains an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.
The Butterfly
Ward Number Six
Ariadne
A Dreary Story
Neighbours
An Anonymous Story
Doctor Startsev
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Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov - himself a country doctor - recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories collected here are a bleakly savage indictment of a society paralysed by spiritual malaise, and morbidly conscious of evils which can neither be killed nor cured.
This volume also contains an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.
