тАШGone AstrayтАЩ is one of ChekhovтАЩs earlier comedic short stories that is a light-hearted romp about two drunken lawyers trying to find their way home at night. ChekhovтАЩs masterful use of irony is present here as one of the lawyers, Kozyavkin, accidentally violates the law by breaking into a house he believes to be his own. The short features some of ChekhovтАЩs most farcical images, such as the overly confident Kozyavkin blindly stumbling through a chicken coop to find his misplaced belongings. тАШGone AstrayтАЩ is a hilarious short story that is an interesting bridge between ChekhovтАЩs earlier comedic work and later melancholy stories as his satirical view of the upper classes is a constant theme throughout. Featuring terrific characters and slapstick comedy, тАШGone AstrayтАЩ should be read by fans of Chekhov or the television series тАШCurb Your EnthusiasmтАЩ. A prolific writer of seven plays, a novel and hundreds of short stories, Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is considered one of the best practitioners of the short story genre in literature. True to life and painfully morbid with his miserable and realistic depictions of Russian everyday life, ChekhovтАЩs characters drift between humour, melancholy, artistic ambition, and death. Some of his best-known works include the plays 'Uncle Vanya', 'The Seagull', and 'The Cherry Orchard', where Chekhov dramatizes and portrays social and existential problems. His short stories unearth the mysterious beneath the ordinary situations, the failure and horror present in everyday life.