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"The Runaway" was one of Lev Tolstoy's favourite stories. "Father greatly enjoyed a little story by Chekhov in the Stoglav almanac and he read it aloud more than once," Tatyana Tolstaya informed her brother Sergey in the 6 February 1889 letter. Later Tolstoy recited it for his guests and family at least twice, in September 1907 and October 1909.
Literary critic William Lyon Phelps reacted positively to the story, writing: In Ward No. 6, which no one should read late at night, Chekhov has given us a picture of an insane asylum, which, if the conditions there depicted are true to life, would indicate that some parts of Russia have not advanced one step since Gogol wrote Revizor...
Chekhov started writing the novella in January 1891. [1] According to Mikhail Chekhov, while working upon it Chekhov regularly met with the zoologist and writer Vladimir Wagner. The two had lengthy discussions, one of which was on the subject of the then-popular concept of "the right of the strong one", which formed the basis of the philosophy ...
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [a] (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ k ɒ f /; [3] Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов [b], IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 [c] – 15 July 1904 [d]) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem ...
With some minor edits, both chapters, under the title "The Teacher of Literature" (and without a dedication) were included into the 1894 collection Novellas and Stories (Повести и рассказы). Chekhov made several more minor edits before including it into Volume 8 of his Collected Works published by Adolf Marks in 1899-1901. [1]
"A Story Without a Title" was first published on 1 January 1888 in Novoye Vremya (issue No. 4253), under the title "Fairy Tale" (Сказка). With the new title and numerous stylistic edits, and now devoid of Oriental motifs, which were originally present, it made its way into the charitable collection "For the Victims of Crop Failure ...
Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, who in his Russkiye Vedomosti review of the Moody People collection (not for the first time) condemned Chekhov's perceived 'aloofness' towards his characters, praised A Dreary Story for a change, as a sign of better things to come and called it "the best and the most significant thing Chekhov had written to date". [7]
The story, written in Nice, France, in the early 1898, was originally intended for Russkaya Mysl. Chekhov opted against sending the manuscript by post and, upon returning home, in May, handed it to Vukol Lavrov. Then he suddenly changed his mind and in a 6 June letter asked Viktor Goltsev to send it back, saying it was not fit for Russkaya Mysl.