By John Coope. 159 pp. Chale, United Kingdom, Cross, 1997. £15. ISBN 1-873-295-21-9.
Simon Leys recently wrote in the New York Review of Books, "Whenyou come to think of it, between two doctors whose medical qualificationsare otherwise equal, I believe I would rather trust the onewho reads Chekhov" ("The Imitation of Our Lord Don Quixote."1998, vol. 55, pp. 32–34). Anton Chekhov, the son of abankrupt small-town grocer, began his medical studies at MoscowUniversity at the age of 19 under miserable conditions of poverty.He lived with his family in a squalid section of Moscow, 1 of10 people crammed into four rooms. To supplement his meagerscholarship, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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