A civil servant stands accused of not understanding the rules of punctuation. He begins to go through the correct use of commas and semicolons, before arriving at the exclamation mark – which, he realizes, in forty years of writing he has never used. His uncertainty spirals into a bizarre and paranoid fantasy, as everyday objects transform themselves into malevolent exclamation marks…
Written between 1885 and 1886, when Anton Chekhov was on the verge of becoming a literary celebrity, this endearing collection of early stories reveals the comic talents of Russia’s most celebrated dramatist and short-story writer.
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About the author
Lynne Truss is best known for her globally successful book on punctuation, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and its best-selling follow-up, Talk to the Hand. She is also the author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas and series.
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