person
Vernon
also: Вернер, собачий воротник
A Moscow publisher of cheap popular fiction in the French-cafe-chantant style, mocked by Chekhov as a 'dog-collar of a man' who buys up batches of his early comic stories at low, one-edition rates for a quick collection; not otherwise identified in the corpus, and distinct from the poet Evgeny Werner and the Werner brothers of Strekoza.
Reading notes
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 13 September 1887. Moscow. §6 Werner, a dog-collar of a man
A Moscow publisher of cheap popular fiction, mocked with the epithet "a dog-collar of a man" (собачий воротник) -- an image of servile, fawning pursuit of business -- for buying up batches of Chekhov's early comic stories at low rates for quick one-edition collections; not otherwise identified.