Ebook: Lady with Lapdog And Other Stories: Grief;Agafya;Misfortune;a Boring Story;the Grasshopper;Ward 6;Ariadne;the House with an Attic;Ionych;the Darling;Lady with Lapdog

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov(1860-1904) may be likened to his contemporaries, the "pointilliste" painters. Piece by piece, episode by episode, character by character, he constructs in prose a survey of the human condition. as David Magarshack writes in his introduction, on reading these stories 'one gets the impression of holding life itself, like a fluttering bird, in one's cupped hands'.