Short Stories About Abuse: Stories of characters having to deal with terrible pain caused by others

Written by Anton Chekhov

Narrated by William Dufris

Equality is one of the great and lauded aims of a just society. It is rarely achieved. The system is there to be exploited by those with too much money and too many resources. Or maybe just a grudge. Our classic authors including Anton Chekhov, O Henry, Susan Glaspell, Arthur Morrison and others turn their pens to the nature of abuse. It may be gentle or laced with searing pain but always told with the sharpest of pens.

1 - Short Stories about Abuse - An Introduction

2 - Hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe

3 - Aloysha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy

4 - A Harlem Tragedy by O Henry

5 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov

6 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

7 - Gentle Breathing by Ivan Bunin

8 - Tony's Wife by Alice Dunbar Nelson

9 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen

10 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

11 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

12 - Tales of Mean Streets. Lizerunt by Arthur Morrison

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Aug 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835470893

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, in southern Russia, and in his youth paid for his own education and supported his entire family by writing short, satirical sketches of Russian life. Though he eventually became a physician and once considered medicine his principal career, he continued to gain popularity and praise as a writer for various Russian newspapers, eventually authoring more literary work and ultimately his most well-known plays, including Ivanov, The Seagull, and Uncle Vanya. He died of tuberculosis in 1904, and is regarded as one of the best short story writers in history, influencing such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, and Raymond Carver.