The Stories of Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) was a
Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician,
considered to be one of the greatest short-story
writers in the history of world literature. His career as
a dramatist produced four classics and his best short
stories are held in high esteem by writers and
critics.Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout
most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful
wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."

Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial
gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made
formal innovations which have influenced the
evolution of the modern short story. His originality
consists in an early use of the stream-ofconsciousness
technique, later adopted by James
Joyce and other modernists, combined with a
disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story
structure.