SOURCE: Winner, Thomas. “The First Serious Stories: From Antosha Chekhonte to Anton Chekhov.” In Chekhov and His Prose, pp. 17–44. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966.
In the following essay, Winner discusses Chekhov's transition from light, humorous fiction to the more serious stories of the late 1880s.
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