Chekhov's Complete Novels (5)

Author: Russian
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: This volume includes over sixty excellent short stories written by Chekhov in 1886. From 1886 to 1892 was a major turning point in the writer's creative development, during which a lyrical psychological novel genre gradually took shape, with "Wan Chang" being its representative work. The story depicts nine-year-old child laborer Wan Chang, who writes a letter to his grandfather on the eve of Christmas, expressing the hardships of his apprentice life and conveying his longing for his grandfather and hometown.