Sakhalin Island

Sakhalin Island, released in 1895, was immediately regarded as a talented and serious book; it is a firsthand account not only of hard labor, shackles, dungeons, escapes, and the gallows, but more importantly, it is the perspective of a thinking person on exile in general. The focus of Chekhov-the-researcher, Chekhov-the-artist is the problem of the convict's personality, a simple, unfortunate person. The book also includes nine essays united by the common authorial title From Siberia.