The Darling

Complete and Unabridged. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 –1904) was a Russian playwright and a master of the modern short fiction. Although primarily famed as a playwright, William Boyd emphasises that his short stories represent the greater accomplishment. Though already widely acclaimed in the Russian literary scene at the time of his death, he did not gain global recognition until after the First World War when he was introduced to the English language readership by Constance Garnett's tra...