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This book is a collection of short stories written by Anton Chekov, a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. One of the stories featured include The House with the Mezzanine, which is a story about Lydia Volchaninova, a good-looking, but very stern and opinionated young teacher with somewhat dictatorial inclinations who is deeply engaged in the affairs of the local zemstvo. Devoted to the cause of helping peasants, she is interested in doing and speaking of nothing but practical work, mostly in the fields of medicine and education. Lydia dislikes the protagonist, a landscape painter, who frequently visits their house. From time to time the two clash over problems of both the rural community and Russia as a whole.