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title: "Five Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)"
brand: "anton chekhov"
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# Five Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)

**Brand:** anton chekhov
**Price:** € 8.91
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- **What is this?** Five Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories) by anton chekhov
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Five Great Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Nice collection of stories
  

*by G***X on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2006*

Chekhov's writing shines in this collection.  The stories are nice and short--easy to read when you have 15-20 minutes to spare.  If you like these, I recommend you read some of his short novels and of course, his four excellent plays.

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    Interesting Reading
  

*by H***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 30, 2019*

Fun raeding.

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    Russian Stories from the 1890s
  

*by J***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 24, 2022*

All of these stories were written in the 1890s so they bear the style of that era. Each has a ‘moral,’ I guess from an era when people might ask ‘what’s the moral of that story?’ I’ll focus on the morals, rather than giving away too much plot.In Gooseberries, a harried urban man doing clerical work dreams of an estate in the country where he can grow gooseberries. He eventually is able to retire and fulfill his dream. He comes to realize, in effect, ‘why do we wait to do something about that despair all around us?’ Here’s a quote: “I look at this life and see the arrogance and the idleness of the strong, the ignorance and the bestiality of the weak, the horrible poverty everywhere…” You can only be happy if you ignore what is hidden all around you. Why wait to do something?In The House with the Mezzanine (aka The Painter), a young man and young woman argue about how to best help the poor around them. The woman is into raising money for hospitals, libraries and schools. The man argues you are just wasting your time treating symptoms; we have to overthrow the system that creates these conditions. (Of course another way of looking at it is that she is actually doing something; he just talks.) He claims that if the peasants weren’t working themselves to death, they wouldn’t need hospitals! In the end, his attitude costs him a lot, in a way he could not have imagined.The Lady with a Toy Dog is the story of a May-December romance. We’re at Yalta, a resort on the Black Sea. A man starts an affair with a woman young enough to be his daughter. For the first time in his life he falls in love. They alternate visits between their homes and marriages in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The lives are filled with, yes, love, but also tension, guilt and despair. Is there any way out?The Peasants gives us the full Monty of the unwashed masses of Russia: drunken men who beat anyone or anything in sight; toothless, hungry people who hide food from each other; women who had 13 children and six lived; ignorance so great that some women don’t go to church because they have never learned a prayer. One man says, in effect, ‘We were better off as serfs…there was more to eat and there was more order. Each man knew his place.’The Black Monk is the longest and most substantial story. A man is fascinated by a legend about a mystical black monk who appears to people. And guess what happens? This story is an early treatise (I guess) about the connection between genius and insanity. If you are one of those gifted people, do you want to run the risk of people thinking you are crazy and losing your friends and lover? Or will you ‘take the cure’ and sit by the fireplace (or the TV)?Good stories, reflecting in content and style the era in which they were written.

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