Letters of Anton Chekhov (Tchekhov) - Penn State University

Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends with biographical sketchNovember 11, 1888.I finished to-day the story* for the Garshin sbornik: it is such aload off my mind. In this story I have told my own opinion—whichis of no interest to anyone—of such rare men as Garshin. I have runto almost 2,000 lines. I speak at length about prostitution, but settlenothing. Why do they write nothing about prostitution in yourpaper? It is the most fearful evil, you know. Our Sobolev street is aregular slave-market.*“A Nervous Breakdown.”98