In 1888 Chekhov wrote that an artist's only duty is to state a problem correctly, never to solve it. He took the judge's bench and left the jury box empty. This book sits down in it - nineteen stories and plays read alongside Keller, Lewis, Stott and Wright. Not to make Chekhov a believer, not to turn his work into sermon illustrations, but to ask where the gospel begins to answer.
In 1888 Chekhov wrote that an artist's only duty is to state a problem correctly, never to solve it. He took the judge's bench and left the jury box empty. This book sits down in it - nineteen stories and plays read alongside Keller, Lewis, Stott and Wright. Not to make Chekhov a believer, not to turn his work into sermon illustrations, but to ask where the gospel begins to answer.