Anton Checkhov - Stories and Short Novels (epub, mobi) torrent

Three books by Anton Chekhov, all in epub and mobi formats:

The Complete Short Novels, translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky. (This is a scanned/OCR'd text; it's been proofread and is good quality, but expect some occasional errors.)

Selected Stories, translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky. (Retail-quality source.)

Forty Stories, translated by Robert Payne (Retail quality source.)


These translations are all modern ones; Pevear and Volokhonsky are widely regarded as the best translators of Russian literature today.


about the author:

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge 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 doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."

Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them.