Chekhov, Anton

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales in Great Books of the Western World. Volume 22. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago. 1952. Chekhov, Anton. The Three Sisters. Translated by Tyrone Guthrie and Leonid Kipnis. Bard Books, New York. 1965. 

Accessed through the Public Electronic Library (Publichnaia Elektronnaia Biblioteka), available at http //public-library.narod.ru/Chekhov.Anton/dachniki. html (accessed August 6, 2008). 

Anton Chekhov, in an October 1890 letter to his mother describing his observations of Sakhalin Island (Chekhov 2,004 38—39)... 

Anton Chekhov, in a June 1890 letter describing his travels in the Far East of the Russian Empire (Chekhov 2004 21—22)... 

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Twelve thousand people are swindled a year the whole [mental] hospital business is founded, just as it was twenty years ago, on theft, scandal, slander, nepx>tism, on crude charlatanism, and, as before, the hospital is an immoral institution, exceedingly harmful to the health of the inmates. ... 

For a moving literary rendition of this theme, see Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ward No. 6, in Seven Short Stories by Chekhov, pp. 106-157. 

Anton Chekhov - the famous Russian writer, once said that a man is a fraction, where the denominator shows his personal estimation and the numerator shows his estimation by other people . Of course, if your personal estimation is low, the fraction will not be very small, even if a person has done little. 

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