Back in his student years, A. P. Chekhov began writing fun short stories that were published in numerous humorous magazines.
Bright, memorable, funny tales are made up of ridiculous incidents and mishaps involving officials and ordinary people, doctors and shopkeepers, theater people and minor landowners.
Chekhov’s laughter—sometimes cheerful, sometimes tinged with a touch of lyrical sadness, sometimes light and bright, sometimes verging on satire—is truly inexhaustible. And it seems his characters were created not by the writer’s imagination, but by life itself…