Chekhov and Short Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was one of the greatest short story writers of all time. His stories evoked great emotion. “It has been said that Chekhov’s story is like a tortoise-all middle. The ending, never stated, is implicit in the frustration, nostalgia, loneliness, pretension, or despair of the story’s one brief moment selected from a life to illuminate it in its entirety.” In other words, even though, there is no ending, it is understood …showed first 75 words of 1339 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1339 total…would start for them.] And they both realized that the end was still far, far away and that the hardest, the most complicated part was only just beginning” Thais Lindstrom A Conscise History Of Russian Litterature-From The Beginning to Chekhov (203) D. S. Mirsky A History of Russian Literature (353) Irina Kirk Anton Checkov (18) Thais Lindstorm (204) Reneand Nonna D. Welleck (editors) Chekhov (195) Lindstorm (205) Kirk (114-115) Lindstorm (205) Lindstorn (210) Kirk (115) Ralph E. Matlaw (editor) Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories (235)