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Best books to read after The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov
If Chekhov's perfect short story moved you, these picks span his other great works and the tradition of the short story he effectively invented — writers who learned from his compression, obliquity, and refusal to resolve.
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Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
The same year's play — the same trapped love, the same Chekhovian impossibility of resolution, on stage.
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The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
Chekhov's final masterwork — the technique of the story applied to an entire vanishing world.
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Buy on AmazonDubliners
by James Joyce
Joyce's Chekhovian collection — the epiphany replacing the drama, the ending as window rather than door.
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The Essential Tales of Chekhov
by Anton Chekhov
The full range of Chekhov's short fiction — Ward No. 6, The Student, The Bishop, The Steppe.
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Buy on AmazonLives of Girls and Women
by Alice Munro
Munro's Chekhov-descended fiction — the whole life compressed into the telling scene.
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Buy on AmazonIn the Penal Colony and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
The other great short story tradition — the oblique, the ambiguous, the parable that refuses explanation.
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Selected Stories
by John Cheever
The American heir to Chekhov — the suburbs as the provinces, the same longing and the same restraint.
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Selected Stories of John Updike
by John Updike
Updike's short fiction in the Chekhovian mode — adultery, disappointment, and the life not lived.
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