115 reviews for:

Anton Chekhov: Selected Short Stories

Anton Chekhov

4.2 AVERAGE

trishtalksbooks's review against another edition

4.0

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

is_book_loring's review against another edition

5.0

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I've read almost five hundred books by now and I know that this is not in any way a spectacular quantity or a particular feat, but recently I've been left feeling insipid after an end. Like when you took sample of too many perfume, or fruity beverages and all the taste started to blur together until they all looked the same thing. So, I've felt the same with hype books, sure it's nice reads, liked them but that was about all, and there was this creeping feeling-watching other people loved and were emotionally affected by theirs- of fear that I am losing that experience of magic. Then I read Chekhov. The first paragraph into The Death of a Government Clerk, and I was struck to the core with that speechless WOW. Three pages of a story and I was positively inspired. Utter brilliance, incomparable, ingenious talent.

rochelles_reading_journal's review against another edition

4.0

challenging medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

katzmetz's review against another edition

4.25

reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

tayboud's review against another edition

4.75

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ineffectual_intellectual's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

kwoolfre's review against another edition

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I'll come back later 

bluestarfish's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny sad medium-paced

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This collections of twenty-four short stories has an incredible range of themes and subject matters and emotions. Funny, sad, bleak, baffling, scathing, gentle... It's amazing how much Anton Chekhov could pack into his stories of ordinary people in Russia.

My edition doesn't say who translated the stories !?

nearnik's review against another edition

3.75

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

katie_esser's review against another edition

3.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character