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Ward No. 6

Anton Chekhov

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1892
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 50

A provincial doctor who long ago stopped fighting his hospital's squalor befriends an asylum patient, and the friendship lands him inside his own ward.

In the hospital yard there stands a small lodge surrounded by a perfect forest of burdocks, nettles, and wild hemp.
Ward No. 6, Anton Chekhov

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