Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 Chekhov AntonPaperback
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 Chekhov AntonPaperback Tales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short storyWard No. These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's…
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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 Chekhov AntonPaperback
Tales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short storyWard No. These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career include - influenced by his own experiences as a doctor - 'Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction.
In all the stories collected here, Chekhov's characters face madness, alienation and frustration before they experience brief, 6', a savage indictment of the medical profession set in a mental hospital; 'The Black Monk', portraying an academic who has strange hallucinations, explores ideas of genius and insanity; 'Murder', in which religious fervour leads to violence; while in 'The Student', Chekhov's favourite story, a young man recounts a tale from the gospels and undergoes a spiritual epiphany.
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