{"id":1883,"date":"2020-04-18T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T08:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2020-04-18T09:34:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T08:34:16","slug":"review-gooseberries-by-anton-chekhov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-gooseberries-by-anton-chekhov\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Gooseberries, by Anton Chekhov"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first of the <em>Penguin Little Black Classics<\/em> series that I&#8217;ve read &#8212; having bought a whole shelf of them a few years back &#8212; and it&#8217;s a good one.  Chekhov is described as having &#8216;perfected the short story&#8217; and the three stories in this slender volume offer some evidence of that.  The best of the three is the first one, &#8216;The Kiss&#8217;, a tale of imagination, sexual desire, fantasy, and loneliness.  With just one character of significance, and 25 pages long, it&#8217;s not exactly &#8216;War and Peace&#8217;, but is a great example of what a short story can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of the Penguin Little Black Classics series that I&#8217;ve read &#8212; having bought a whole shelf of them a few years back &#8212; and it&#8217;s a good one. Chekhov is described as having&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}