The Woman in the Case: Newly translated and Annotated

About Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov (18601904) is one of the giants of modern literature exerting a strong influence on many present-day novelists and dramatists. As a playwright he ranks in popularity second only to Shakespeare in the English-speaking world. As a prose writer he was one of the first to use the stream-of-consciousness technique and his anti-heroic realism full of ambiguity and allusion provides no easy moral conclusions and results in a new kind of narrative approaching real life in a way no writer had achieved before him.