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alona's review against another edition
5.0
Chekhov illustrates the complexities of the dynamics in 19th century Russian society in an impossibly effortless way. He does it so well precisely because he refuses to acknowledge just one absolute truth about life: humans are complex, and so the world they create must be one too.
misskeesa's review against another edition
1.0
Finally, I finished! If I'm not mistaken, this is the first work of Russian literature I've ever finished in my life. (The fact that it was a collection of short stories helped.) I want so much to like Russian literature - I have Russian blood in me, and I feel I ought to like it! - but to me, no matter how hard I try, it always feels dull and dreary. Yes, that's the perfect word for it....dreary, monotonous, stretching on as far as the eye can see like the landscapes the authors describe.
soumyasreehari's review against another edition
3.0
This is the first Chekov book I read. Liked the stories for their depiction of complexity of human thoughts and feelings. All stories are about everyday occurrences in life, the nuances of thought and emotions make them interesting.
sookieskipper's review against another edition
3.0
If two people on Twitter were to argue and one would say "fight me" and the other would take this literally and arrange for a duel IRL.
That's pretty much it with a quiet moral of the story ending.
That's pretty much it with a quiet moral of the story ending.
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