The gift is “a low candelabrum of antique bronze” with two figures that were, Of the nine stories, the first two were my favorites. In “A Work of Art,” a young man named Sasha offers a gift to a doctor as a thank you for saving his life. Henry and my thoughts on the collection quite succinctly. But from what I remember, I think that sums up my impressions of Chekhov versus O. Henry, even if I haven’t read as much of him as I’d like to. Henry may be called the American Chekov with a ‘punch,’ Chekhov may be equally termed the Russian O. “They are told with that same breeziness, that same crispness, and end with that same ‘punch’ as characterize the America’s work. Henry, particularly the first two stories in the collection: “A Work of Art” and “Vengeance.” As the introduction explains: In the introduction, Chekhov is compared to American short story writer O. The nine stories are all quite short – the book is only 67 pages online – and don’t take much time to get through. I decided on Nine Humorous Tales, a book I could get for free on my nook via Google Books. Turns out he was also considered a master of the short story, so when he came up on The Classics Circuit I decided to try a collection of those. Before reading Nine Humorous Tales I mostly knew Russian writer Anton Chekov from his plays like The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard.
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