Just yesterday I was sent a link by a good friend to the English translation of a short story called Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov. I had never read anything by Chekhov before, but I was familiar with a number of Russian authors - Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Tolstoy - all of whom I enjoyed greatly. Chekhov's style reminds me somewhat of a more-psychological Balzac, certainly somewhat in the realist vein, or of Zola. Very cutting, gritty and in my opinion worthwhile.
Niall O'Higgins is an author, event organizer and software consultant. He wrote the book MongoDB and Python, published by O'Reilly. Events he organizes include We Have Tablets, the #1 Bay Area Tablet Computing Meet-up and PyWebSF. He also offers consulting services for Mobile, Tablet and Cloud Computing.
