Agafya and Other Short Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress.”

This collection of ten of his best short stories include:

Agafya

An Actor's End

An Adventure

An Anonymous Story

An Artist's Story

An Avenger

An Enigmatic Nature

An Inadvertence

An Incident

An Inquiry