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Letters of Anton Chekhov (Tchekhov) - Penn State University

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<strong>Letters</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Anton</strong> <strong>Chekhov</strong> to His Family and Friends with biographical sketchTO V. A. POSSE.YALTA, February 15, 1900.MUCH RESPECTED VLADIMIR ALEXANDROVITCH,“Foma Gordeyev” and in a superb binding too is a precious andtouching present; I thank you from the bottom <strong>of</strong> my heart. A thousandthanks! I have read “Foma” only in bits, now I shall read itproperly. Gorky should not be published in parts; either he mustwrite more briefly, or you must put him in whole as the VyestnikEvropy does with Boborykin. “Foma,” by the way, is very successful,but only with intelligent well-read people—with the young also. Ionce overheard in a garden the conversation <strong>of</strong> a lady (from Petersburg)with her daughter: the mother was abusing the book, thedaughter was praising it ….402

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