Writing towards the close of the nineteenth century, Chekhov - himself a country doctor - recorded in his fiction the symptoms of a diseased society. The seven stories collected here are a bleakly savage indictment of a society paralysed by spiritual malaise, and morbidly conscious of evils which can neither be killed nor cured. This volume also contains an Introduction by Ronald Hingley.
- ISBN10 0451516907
- ISBN13 9780451516909
- Publish Date 1 September 1965
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 October 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Signet Classics
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Language English