Anton Chekhov 
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov: Ladies and Other Stories, Volume 6 

Chekhov has always been huge inspiration for many great writers who came in contact with Chekhov’s art. Thomas Man wrote that Chekhov’s short stories attain to full epic stature and can even surpass in intensity the great towering novels. ‘If I understood that better in later life than in my youth, this was largely owing to my growing intimacy with Chekhov’s art; for his short stories rank with all that is greatest and best in European literature.’ he concluded . But what is it that makes Chekhov’s stories so poignant, so striking and so inspiring? This volume offers some Chekhov’s best stories, including: An Inadvertence, A Tripping Tongue, Boots, In An Hotel, Ladies.