num_pages: 288
description: This collection contains the following eleven stories:Grief AgafyaMisfortune A Boring Story (From an Old Man's Notebook)The GrasshopperWard No. 6Ariadne The House with an AtticIonychThe DarlingThe Lady with the LapdogAnton Pavlovich Chekhov may be likened to his contemporaries, the "pointilliste" painters. Piece by piece, episode by episode, character by character, he constructs in prose a survey of the human condition. As David Magarshack writes in his introduction, on reading these stories 'one gets the impression of holding life itself, like a fluttering bird, in one's cupped hands'.
language: English
title: Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories
genres: Classics, Short Stories, Russia, Russian Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 577
publisher: Penguin Classics