Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), the son of a grocer, worked as a physician and ran an open clinic for the poor, while also writing the plays and short stories that have established him as one of the greatest figures in Russian literature. The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life. Peasants is just one of the powerful and revealing selection from Chekhov's final works.

在我们的印象中，农村没有城市的喧嚣吵闹，到处都散发着祥和安逸的气息......而在本书中，作者以农民的生活为线索以清醒的现实主义反映了农民的物质和精神生活的贫乏：赤贫、愚昧、落后和野蛮；揭示了当时社会的落后和黑暗，儿女渴望离开追求希望的旅途，因此开始了本书的故事......