Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov

THE SHOOTING PARTY

Translated by A. E. Chamot 1925

This is the only novel to be written by Chekhov, which was published in serial format in a St. Petersburg newspaper when he was 24 years old. The story is told from the viewpoint of a dissolute magistrate and seducer of lonely local women, whose romantic misadventures result in the death of one of his victims at a shooting party. It is a steamy story of murder and betrayal, set against the rolling backdrop of provincial Russia.