The Unknown Chekhov

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From the introduction to The Unknown Chekhov:At least a dozen years were to pass [after Anton Chekhov's first short story published in English] before his tales began to gain some attention in the English-speaking world. ... [And yet] when work on the present collection was begun, scores of stories were still inaccessible in English, some of them comparable to those that have become a part of the literary heritage of the west. ... At the start of his career [Chekhov] turned out a great deal of copy for the comic papers [that] evidenced a genuine sense of fun, a satiric verve, an eye for revealing details of appearance and behavior, an ear for living speech, signs of that "talent for humanity, " compacted of understanding and compassion, which is Chekhov's signature. ...From the first, the youthful humorist tried his hand at journalism... These breezy, gossipy, often biting paragraphs-he did not flinch from muckraking-touched on everything, from the unsanitary condition of the tenements to women's fashions. ... Wholly unknown [in English] were Chekhov's journalistic writings, as well as his book on the island of Sakhalin and its penal colony. The reader is offered here a selection from all of this material.