Anton Chekhov - Six of the Best: Their legacy in 6 classic stories

Written by Anton Chekhov

Narrated by David Shaw Parker

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.

Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best.

In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words.

These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

1 - Six of the Best - Anton Chekov - An Introduction

2 - Anton Chekhov - An Introduction

3 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov

4 - The Kiss by Anton Chekhov

5 - Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov

6 - Misery by Anton Chekhov

7 - The Student by Anton Chekhov

8 - Volodya by Anton Chekhov

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group Audio
• Release date: Feb 2, 2024
• ISBN: 9781835478653

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 in Southern Russia and moved to Moscow to study medicine. Whilst at university he sold short stories and sketches to magazines to raise money to support his family. His success and acclaim grew as both a writer of fiction and of plays whilst he continued to practice medicine. Ill health forced him to move from his country estate near Moscow to Yalta where he wrote some of his most famous work, and it was there that he married actress Olga Knipper. He died from tuberculosis in 1904.