A short story by Anton Chekhov , read by Micheline Patton
Chekhov is mainly known to the English public as a dramatist ; it would be more correct to describe him as a short-story writer of genius who was also a talented playwright. Whatever he did to the play, he certainly brought about a revolution in the short story-freeing it from the ' event plot' and the convention of artificial form, and giving it a freedom and fluidity which have exercised an incalculable influence on the more serious of modern English story-writers.