The Steppe
A nine-year-old boy is put into a cart with his uncle and a priest and sent across the summer steppe to a town where he is to be enrolled in school. The party falls in with a wool convoy, and for days there is heat, a thunderstorm, singing at night, and the drivers' talk of a bandit nobody has seen. Chekhov's first work for a serious literary journal, and the one that stopped the critics treating him as a writer of comic sketches.
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- influenced by ↑ Dead Souls
- influenced by ↑ Taras Bulba
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