Chekhov as a master story writer - consistently wonderful here.
Some overlap with this recently-read collection, but not too much.
The translators made a big splash originally, but seem to have fallen out of favor. I have no way to judge. Their translations are very readable, if that's worth anything. Don't know how true to the tone of the original.
Wide variety of characters from so many walks of Russian life and from many geographic areas.
His ability set a scene; little descriptions of nature packed with so much; etc.
I'll be paging through this from time to time - a lot to absorb.
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