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	201 Stories by Anton Chekhov
		About Anton Chekhov: One of Russia's greatest writers, Chekhov began his career writing jokes and anecdotes for popular magazines to support himself while he studied to become a doctor.
		Between 1888 and his death he single-handedly revolutionized both the drama and the short story.
		About this project: Constance Garnett translated and published 13 volumes of Chekhov stories in the years 1916-1922.
	chekhov2.tripod.com (339 words)

	Anton Chekhov
		Chekhov portrayed often life in the Russian small towns, where tragic events occur in a minor key, as a part of everyday life.
		Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, Ukraine, as the son of a grocer and grandson of a serf who had bought his freedom in 1841.
		Chekhov's childhood was shadowed by his father's tyranny and religious fanaticism.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.64 (1068 words)

	SparkNotes: Chekhov Stories: Context
		Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in Taganrog, a southern Russian port, in 1860.
		The son of a shopkeeper and grandson of a serf, Chekhov was himself well educated and aspired to a career in medicine.
		Chekhov's stories are thus deeply humane works of fiction: in detailing life's poignant trivialities, they are unrivalled in their sense of authenticity.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/chekhov/context.html (621 words)

	Anton Chekhov
		The young Chekhov was soon impressed into the services of the large, poverty-stricken family, and he spoke regretfully in after years of his hard-worked childhood.
		Chekhov himself was far from pleased with what he called his "literary abortion," and rewrote it before it was produced again in St. Petersburg.
		Chekhov's delicate and elusive descriptive power did not lend itself to painting on a large canvas, and his strange little tragi-comedies of Russian life, his "Tedious Tales," as he called them, were always to remain his masterpieces.
	www.theatrehistory.com /russian/chekhov001.html (1799 words)

	Anton Chekhov
		Chekhov portrayed often life in the Russian small towns, where tragic events occur in a minor key, as a part of everyday texture of life.
		Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, southern Russia, as the son of a grocer and grandson of a serf, who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841.
		Chekhov's childhood was shadowed by his father's tyranny, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, which was open from five in the morning till midnight.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /tsehov.htm (2080 words)

	Anton Chekhov
		Chekhov considered his mature plays to be a kind of comic satire, pointing out the unhappy nature of existence in turn-of-the-century Russia.
		During Chekhov's final years, he was forced to live in exile from the intellectuals of Moscow.
		Since his death, Chekhov's plays have become famous worldwide and he has come to be considered the greatest Russian storyteller and dramatist of modern times.
	www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc6.htm (630 words)

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