About Love. Stories and Novellas

Love for Chekhov is poignant, autumnal, always tinged with sadness. It is always the most significant event in the lives of the characters. In this book, Chekhov's masterpieces dedicated to love are collected for the first time. Among them are sad lyrical stories that reveal a profound understanding of human psychology, caustic plots, and an attempt to write a "boulevard novel" about unrequited love – "A Drama in the Hunt." But these very different novellas and stories have much in common. For Chekhov, love is, above all, the need to give warmth and tenderness to the object of one's feelings. It is always a revelation, a discovery – even when the writer approaches the feeling with his characteristic sarcasm. "When you love, you uncover such a wealth within yourself, so much tenderness, affection, that it’s hard to believe you can love like that," – the credo of the world-famous Russian classic.