Love and Other Stories

Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov "e;the greatest short story writer who has ever lived."e; This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achievements in prose, the importance of Chekhov's stories is now recogn...