Chekhov's Complete Novels 5

Author: (Russian) Chekhov
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Features: This volume includes over sixty of Chekhov's excellent short stories written 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 Wan Chang, a nine-year-old child laborer who lost his parents, writing a letter to his grandfather on the eve of Christmas, expressing the hardships of his apprentice life and his longing for his grandfather and hometown.