Download or read book Peasants and Other Stories written by Anton Anton Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Peasants and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life. This powerful and revealing selection from Chekhov's final works, made by the legendary American critic Edmund Wilson, offers stories of novelistic richness and complexity. The most famous story here is "The Peasants" about a Moscow waiter named Nikolai who, in old age, loses his health an job and thus must move with his wife back to the very small village of huts where others of his family live. Village peasant life was stark, harsh, grim, a struggle living, with nearby some beautiful scenes and churches. Moscow was the longed-for "Mecca" which seems to hold glorious promise if only they could be admitted to work there.