The Greatest Russian Stories Of Crime And Suspense - Plot & Excerpts
just before his twentieth birthday while a medical student at Moscow University. His stories number in the hundreds, many of which have never been translated and some never even included in his collected works in Russia. His only novel, The Shooting Party (1884) was published in the same year that he took his medical degree, and a story collection, Motley Stories (1886) garnered critical acclaim. He was already suffering from tuberculosis and soon moved to a farm in the countryside. As his health deteriorated, he made frequent trips to warmer climates, befriending Leo Tolstoy on one trip to Yalta. He shared some of Tolstoy’s views of simple Christianity and anarchy for a short while, then broke with the philosophy, famously declaring: “Reason and justice tell me that there is more humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.” In the last decade of his life, he wrote his four greatest plays, The Sea Gull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1899), The Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).
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