Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

from sweetiegherkin

I picked this up because I hadn't really read any Russian literature prior to this. (I feel my reading habits have been much biased toward American and British literature and occasionally I try to rectify this.) Chekov sounded promising to me as a start. It's hard to review an entire collection o...

from BooksForDinner

Wonderful, of course. Read a number of these, but not all of them. Will revisit eventually.

from vyode

GO READ THIS. stories happen between their latitudes. thought envoking.

from P_S_Patrick

This is collection of short stories about doctors, academics, intellectuals, and the other characters with which they interact. The stories all have some kind of melancholy about them, either due to the ennui, infatuations, or quotidian boredom that the characters experience. While much of litera...

from BruderBane

How can I compose a review about a writer who is considered one of history's greatest literary phenomenons? I don't know. All I can say is how as a person in the 21st century reading his works today feels. Underwhelmed is probably correct but I feel too guilty saying that. Let me just declare tha...