{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d3a","title":"The Man in a Case","publish_year":1898,"publish_source":"Русская мысль (Russian Thought)","publish_edition":"No. 7, July","author":"Anton Chekhov","code":"the-man-in-a-case","words":5285,"image":"gentleman.jpg","image_alt":"A man in a tuxedo tipping his hat. Graphite Filter.","genres":["literary","quirky","tragedy"],"description":"A schoolteacher tells of a colleague he once had who lived his life as if ‘in a case’.","blurb":"‘No; marriage is a serious step. One must first weigh the duties before one, the responsibilities . . . that nothing may go wrong afterwards. It worries me so much that I don’t sleep at night’","original_language":"Russian","translators":["Constance Garnett"],"unique_cover":"Drawing of a man in a dark coat and with an umbrella shambling along the street.","rating":4,"cover_source":"Vladimir Alexeevich Milashevsky","has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"literary","title":"Best of Literary","collection_type":"genre"}]}