Order Description
Read Chekhov’s short story “The Lottery Ticket”
•Read Chekhov’s short story “The Lady with the Small Dog”
•Read Leskov’s short story “Lefty”
Look carefully at the writing style used by the authors in both stories. Every author tends to have a distinctive style unique to his or her writings. Describe three different aspects of each authors’ styles that you notice, using specific examples from the stories to back up your argument. Are the styles similar in any way? How so? (You might consider looking at such things as sentence structure, use of vocabulary, use of dialogue, the way a story “unfolds”, characterizations, point of view, use of humor, narrative style, or anything that seems special or unusual about the way each author tells the story.)

Order Description
Read Chekhov’s short story “The Lottery Ticket”
•Read Chekhov’s short story “The Lady with the Small Dog”
•Read Leskov’s short story “Lefty”
Look carefully at the writing style used by the authors in both stories. Every author tends to have a distinctive style unique to his or her writings. Describe three different aspects of each authors’ styles that you notice, using specific examples from the stories to back up your argument. Are the styles similar in any way? How so? (You might consider looking at such things as sentence structure, use of vocabulary, use of dialogue, the way a story “unfolds”, characterizations, point of view, use of humor, narrative style, or anything that seems special or unusual about the way each author tells the story.)