Anton Chekhov wrote short stories and plays about ordinary lives, frustrated ambitions and people who often understand their problems without knowing how to change them. Stories such as 'The Lady with the Dog', 'Ward No. 6' and 'The Darling' use small encounters and restrained endings rather than dramatic plot twists. In drama, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters place families and artists in houses where conversation, disappointment and missed opportunities accumulate slowly. Chekhov's prose and dialogue are precise, understated and observant, with implication doing more work than explanation. His work fits Russian classics, literary short fiction and modern realist drama. Short-story collections are the easiest starting point before the longer dramatic works. Readers new to Chekhov can start with the short stories, where his characteristic open endings and small changes of perception are easiest to see; the plays use similar restraint but depend on ensemble dialogue, pauses and what characters fail to say. Read more Less
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