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Anton Chekhov

1860–1904

Chekhov's stories tend to arrive quietly and stay with you: a doctor on a dull afternoon, a woman deciding whether to love someone, a man who thought a change of place would change him. Start with «The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories» for the short, glancing pieces, or «The Duel» if you want a whole novel's worth of weather and argument in one slim book.

Feels like melancholy, love and time.

Start with The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories.

Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout his writing life, and joked that medicine was his lawful wife and literature his mistress.

Two people on a bench hear what will outlast them.

At Oreanda they sat on a seat not far from the church, looked down at the sea, and were silent. Yalta was hardly visible through the morning mist; white clouds stood motionless on the mountain-tops. The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.
— The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories, Anton Chekhov (1899)

Books by Anton Chekhov

The Duel

Anton Chekhov, 1891

A clever, idle Russian runs off with another man's wife, brings her to a hot coast town, and slowly discovers that the problem has travelled with him.

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