Just yesterday I was sent a link by a good friend to the English translation of a short story called Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov. I had never read anything by Chekhov before, but I was familiar with a number of Russian authors - Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Tolstoy - all of whom I enjoyed greatly. Chekhov's style reminds me somewhat of a more-psychological Balzac, certainly somewhat in the realist vein, or of Zola. Very cutting, gritty and in my opinion worthwhile.
Niall O'Higgins is an author and software developer. He wrote the O'Reilly book MongoDB and Python. He is the co-founder of BeyondFog, Inc which makes Strider Brilliant Continuous Deployment. Strider is a hosted Continuous Integration & Deployment service for Node.JS and Python.
