Description: Anton Chekhov is regarded by many as the most outstanding short story writer. This may be a surprise at the first encounter with even his most famous stories, because they are rarely driven by plot or anticipation. They are often gentle in character, elusive in purpose; but they create a resonance in the imagination that rings long. Here are 12 stories, from the brightly comic to the overtly tragic, each full of the sharpest observations of personality and situation, and with implications beyond their brief form; the dying actor, the children playing a game, the cabman with his tragedy, the orator's mistake and, perhaps most richly of all, the family laid bare in 'In The Ravine'. With music by Tchaikovsky and Balakirev.

Contents:
- Oh! the Public
- The Chorus Girl
- The Trousseau
- A Story Without a Title
- Children
- Misery
- Fat and Thin
- The Beggar
- Hush!
- The Orator
- An Actor's End
- In the Ravine

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
Genre: classic literature, short stories
Date: 2002
Duration: 3 hrs and 37 mins
Reader: Kenneth Branagh
Quality: 128кбит, 48000Гц Стерео
Size: 197 mb
Format: mp3
Language: English