The Shooting Party - Anton Chekhov

...Chekhov. This is, in fact, the only full length novel that Chekhov ever wrote; he is better known for his plays and short stories. There is a literary argument about whether Chekhov was influenced by British detective fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins, or, as seems more likely, he was influenced by French detective fiction, such as Gaboriau. Whatever, this book is an interesting take on detective fiction in 19th century Russian. ...
...from the medical faculty of Moscow University. He supported his family during this time by writing for magazines. After The Shooting Party was published in 1885, he published two collections of short stories in 1886, the second of which won the Pushkin Prize. His best-known work, in the form of plays such as The Seagull, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, was published after 1890. The plot Young and beautiful Olga, the daughter of a forester ...

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