by Anton Chekhov · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141022161
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«The Kiss» is a short story by Anton Chekhov, published by Penguin in paperback (64 pages, in English).
The story follows Ryabovitch, a shy young officer self-conscious about his looks, who at a party at a general's house gets lost in a dark room and receives a kiss from a woman who mistakes him for another man. The fleeting scene stays with him and colors his everyday life differently.
Part of the Pocket Penguins 70's collection, launched by Penguin in May 2005 to celebrate its 70th anniversary.
For readers of short fiction and 19th-century Russian literature.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer. Widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time, his career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
