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This collection gathers short stories that sketch Russian provincial life across stages from childhood to maturity, following schoolboys, families, and provincial professionals. Vignettes range from playful childhood adventures to quiet domestic crises and ironic portraits of social types, blending empathetic observation, subdued humor, and moral ambiguity. Sparse narration and precise detail reveal characters' private desires, disappointments, and compromises, while episodes of performance, illness, and petty vanity expose social pretensions. The pieces shift tone between tenderness and irony, favoring mood and character over plot-driven action.

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Title: Russian Silhouettes: More Stories of Russian Life

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Translator: Marian Fell

Release date: November 22, 2021 [eBook #66790]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Duckworth & Co, 1915

Credits: Richard Tonsing, MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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RUSSIAN SILHOUETTES
MORE STORIES OF RUSSIAN LIFE

BY
ANTON TCHEKOFF
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY
MARIAN FELL
LONDON
DUCKWORTH & CO.
1915
Copyright, 1915, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, for the
United States of America
Printed by the Scribner Press
New York, U. S. A.