Book Review: The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov (Translated by Constance Garnett)

This volume contains nine amazing short stories.  It touches on the themes of hope, despair, married life, choice, love, ego, time, happiness, life and freedom. The short stories include the Lady with the Dog, A Doctor's Visit, An Upheaval, Ionitch, The Head of the Family, The Black Monk, Volodya, An Anonymous Story and The Husband.

Chekov writes (from In The Lady with the Dog): " Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life groveling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it- just as though one were in a madhouse or a prison" (p. 9).

Chekov was born in 1860 in Russia and died in 1904 in a German town. I think Anton Chekov is one of the greatest short story writers of the world. People reading him in Russian are very lucky.