ANTON CHEKHOVPrincess Nina Andronikova ToumanovaColumbia Uni-versity Press ($3).
Greatest of Russian short-story writers his adherents say, greatest in the world Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is principally known to the U. S. as the author of one play, The Cherry Orchard.* Never so popular as Maupassant, and overshadowed today by such compatriots as Tolstoy and Dostoievsky, Chekhov had a bright day in his own lifetime (1860-1904), will no doubt re-emerge in the future. His comparatively few U. S. and English readers have generally found Chekhov, even in translation, an unforgettable experience.
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