“For a man who died at 40, Anton Chekhov left an astounding legacy. Though he worked full-time as a physician - which in 19th-century Russia meant driving horse-carriages around the frigid countryside to visit badly suffering people in the middle of the night - Chekhov completed an unthinkable 600 short stories and 13 plays in his lifetime. His work inspires adoration from readers, including writers as different as Virginia Woolf and Raymond Carver.”

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