Short Fiction Chekhov, Anton: The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories. v1, 30 Mar 2017

[AlexBell]

Anton Chekhov was born in 1860, the grandson of a serf who had bought his own freedom, and died of tuberculosis in 1904, a renowned doctor, playright, writer of hundreds of short stories, and friend of Leo Tolstoy.

Most the stories in this collection focus on children, and some focus on animals. The last one is a satirical detective story.

The short stories included in this ebook are: The Cook's Wedding, Sleepy, Children, The Runaway, Grisha, Oysters, Home, A Classical Student, Vanka, An Incident, A Day in the Country, Boys, Shrove Tuesday, The Old House, In Passion Week, Whitebrow, Kashtanka, A Chameleon, The Dependents, Who Was to Blame?, The Bird Market, An Adventure, The Fish, Art, and The Swedish Match.

The text for this ebook was taken from the University of Adelaide ebook library, and checked against the print version on Hathitrust.org. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotes, replaced italics and diacritics, and made changes to spelling and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com.

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