This unique collection of medical stories approaches its theme from many eras and perspectives. Some of the authors included were themselves physicians, notably Chekhov, Conan Doyle, Somerset Maugham and William Carlos Williams....

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world\"s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith....

A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official’s son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him....

Unique collection of Chekhov’s stories, some of them never translated before into English. Universally acclaimed as the master of the short-story form, Anton Chekhov began his literary career as the author of brief tales and vignettes of Russian life when he was still a young medical student....

A play ought to be written in which people should come and go, dine, talk of the weather or play cards... because that is what happens in real life - Anton Chekhov Chekhov demolished the conventions of traditional Russian theatre and created something new that proved hugely influential....

Anton Chekhov was one of Russian literature\"s greatest short story writers. This collection brings together twenty-five of his best known, including ‘Fat and Thin’, ‘Sleepy’, ‘Rothschild’s Fiddle’, and ’The Lady with a Dog’. An acute observer of everyday life in late 19th-century Russia, Chekhov was a master of wry precision....

A masterfully rendered volume of Chekhov\"s stories from award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Chekhov\"s genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction....

Chekhov is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His works often asked many more questions than they answered, and he was one of the first writers to use the stream-of-consciousness technique....

A Russian version of Don Juan is the focus of Chekhov\"s first play, a farce in which a newly arrived schoolmaster proves irresistible to the bored women of a provincial community....

On a visit to a provincial town to see his sister Nina who is suffering from cancer, Alexei Laptev, who works for his father\"s Moscow haberdashery business, falls in love with Yulia, the daughter of her doctor, and proposes to her....

The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov\"s evolution from a novice writer to a master of short narrative form. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Donald Rayfield....

Tea\"s cold, lunch is late and the great Professor has turned out to be a fraud - for Uncle Vanya, life has gone wonky, it\"s gone to hell. Only one thing can save him - a glamorous woman\"s love. But she\"s not interested either. And......

Hear what I have to say about the cherry orchard, because it is mine. I say bring it down, tear it down. Smash it down and tear it down. Watch, watch. Just you watch. I will build holiday villas, as far as the eye can see. I will build a place for......

Anton Chekhov was one of the world\"s most accomplished short-story writers and this collection displays the breadth and variety of his genius. Part of the Macmillan Collector\"s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers....

The tide of change is coming. Madam Ranyevskaya\"s liberal world of privilege and pleasure is beginning to show cracks, but she and her family live on in denial. Lopakhin wants to rescue Ranyevskaya....