Anton Chekhov: Selected Short Stories

by Jean Epstein, Anton Chekhov

"Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy."    - Anton Chekhov Selected Short Stories by Anton Chekhov, one of greatest writers of Short Fiction. 
QUICK Chekhov is the most frequently produced playwright after William Shakespeare.

269 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 5, 2018

About the author

Jean Epstein (March 25, 1897 – April 2, 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist.

Reviews

[Renee Kahl · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read enough to call it finished; I may or may not read the rest of the stories. The worst problem is that this is a truly horribly made collection, stories that are in the public domain thrown together hastily to make a saleable kindle book. Why Jean Epstein gets to put his or her name on it is a mystery-- (s)he wrote nothing, no introduction or commentary of any kind, and worse, did not even put in a table of contents! There is no option but to read the stories in the order compiled, having no mechanism to toggle around to choose among them.
Without this major defect I would still only give he stories a 3 at best. Checkhov is hailed as a great short story writer, but universal human truth has a hard time peeking its way through the often inexplicable behavior of these 19th century Russian peasants. I usually admire terse prose, but too much is lost in translation here. These stories are just boring.
And what do they mean "illustrated"?!