Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories By Anton Chekhov

This collection contains the following eleven stories:

Grief 

Agafya

Misfortune 

A Boring Story (From an Old Man's Notebook)

The Grasshopper

Ward No. 6

Ariadne 

The House with an Attic

Ionych

The Darling

The Lady with the Lapdog

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov may be likened to his contemporaries, the "pointilliste" painters. Piece by piece, episode by episode, character by character, he constructs in prose a survey of the human condition. As David Magarshack writes in his introduction, on reading these stories 'one gets the impression of holding life itself, like a fluttering bird, in one's cupped hands'.