The Black Monk: And Other Stories (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 0483321303
- ISBN-13
- 9780483321304
- Series
- The Black Monk
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-01-18
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- Anton Tchekhoff
Description
Excerpt from The Black Monk: And Other Stories Anton Pavlovitch Tchekhofl' was born in 1860, spent his infancy in South Russia, and was educated in the Medical Faculty of Moscow University. Although a doctor by profession, and actually practising for some years as a municipal medical officer, he began his literary career as a story writer before completing his profes sional education, contributing, when a student, sketches to the weekly comic journals, and fcuillctom to the St. Petersburg newspapers. Tchekholf's early stories turn largely upon domestic misunderstandings; they are brief, avowedly humorous, and even farcical. They attracted early attention by their irresponsible gaiety, seldom untinged with a certain bitterness. The Steppe, a panorama of travel through the great plains of South Russia, published serially in the now extinct Sicvcmi Viestnik, was the first of his productions of sustained merit. It was followed by a series of stories and sketches and one volume of dramas, which have, in the opinion of Russian critics, established the writer on a level with the best native fiction writers, and on a much higher level than any of his contemporaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
