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"The Only Remedy"
also: Единственное средство
A short Chekhonte-era humoresque (1883), à propos a Petersburg mutual-credit-society trial, that Chekhov sent Leikin as a specimen piece compressed to fit Oskolki's line limit -- and still judged 'devilishly long.'
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 12 January 1883. Moscow. §6 "The Only Remedy"
A short Chekhonte-era humoresque, à propos a Petersburg mutual-credit-society trial, that Chekhov enclosed with this letter as a specimen of a piece cut to the bone for Oskolki's line limit and still, in his own judgment, too long.