A landowner is told, in his own house, that his relief work during the famine is worthless and his wife despises him — and the story simply follows what he does next. Chekhov practiced medicine throughout his career, ran famine relief and cholera districts himself, and knew precisely how well-meaning gentlemen behave when the peasants are actually starving.
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The Cherry Orchard
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories : Stories of Provincial Russia
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories : With Kashtanka, The Darling and Other Stories
Kashtanka and Other Stories : Children, and the Adults Who Miss Them
The Party and Other Stories : Stories of Household Strain
The Bishop and Other Stories : Late Stories of Illness and Faith
Love, and Other Stories : Stories of Attachment and Its End
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories : Yalta, and What Follows It
The Darling and Other Stories : Ten Stories of Ordinary Lives
The Duel and Other Stories : Excellent People, The Princess, The Chemist's Wife
The Big Book of Christmas
The Gambler : A Story of the Roulette Table
Bel Ami : or, The History of a Scoundrel
Notes from the Underground : A Confession from a Petersburg Corner
White Nights, and Other Stories : Stories of the Petersburg Nights
Father Goriot : A Paris Boarding-House Tragedy
The Fortune of the Rougons
Carmen : A Tale of Seville
Master and Man, and Other Stories : A Tale of the Russian Winter
The Magic Skin : A Fable of Desire and Its Cost
Eugénie Grandet : Scenes of Provincial Life
The Fortune of the Rougons : The First of the Rougon-Macquart
The Red Lily : A Romance of Paris and Florence