Woman in the Case

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) is one of the giants of modern literature, exerting a strong influence on many present-day novelists and dramatists. As a playwright, he ranks in popularity second only to Shakespeare in the English-speaking world. As a prose writer, he was one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and his anti-heroic realism, full of ambiguity and allusion, provides no easy moral conclusions and results in a new kind of narrative approaching real life in a way no writer had achieved before him.

• Contains: The Woman in the Case, A Visit to Friends, Appropriate Measures, The Boa-Constrictor and the Rabbit, History of aBusiness Enterprise, 75,000, The Mask, An Unpleasant Incident, The Eve of the Trial, Sinister Night, The Lodger, The Dream, Out of Sheer Boredom, A Disagreeable Experience, His First Appearance, Holy Simplicity, The Diplomat, Mutual Superiority, Taedium Vitae, Other People's Trouble, A Reporter's Dream, One Man's Meat, The Guest, Wife for Sale