Books by Антон Павлович Чехов

That is a book by Anton Chekhov , part memoir, part ethnographic study of a penal colony and the surrounding economic institutions on Sakhalin Island .  I hardly ever hear of this work, but it is both a literary and social science masterpiece; I will teach it next spring in my Law and Literature class.  Here is one review of the book .  This excerpt reminded me of some recent events: