Three Years

Three Years is an 1895 novella by Anton Chekhov. At 130 pages it is Chekhov's second-longest narrative.^[1][2] The story takes a negative position on the progress of society, featuring individuals of the merchant and factory owner class and their workers, without offering political solutions.^[3]

References

1. Michael C. Finke Seeing Chekhov: Life and Art 2005 0801443156 p.128 "Three Years - The theme of degeneration plays out in a merchant milieu very close to the Chekhov family's own in the 1895 "Three Years" ("Tri goda"), Chekhov's second-longest narrative."
2. Walter Horace Bruford Chekhov and His Russia: A Sociological Study 2003-0415178096 p180 "Chekhov's Three years (1895) is a small-scale Buddenbrooks, written six years before Thomas Mann's masterpiece, and eleven years before the first part of the Forsyte Saga. In his epigrammatic way, the author gives us in 130 pages, and the story of just three years, the same feeling for the inevitable differentiation of successive generations which Mann and Galsworthy elaborate at much greater length."
3. Rose Whyman Anton Chekhov 2010 1136913637 "Modernization was not a panacea: he rejected the myth of progress, the idea that any one economic system, form of government, artistic approach, religious or philosophical system, could lead towards a utopian future, discussing the issue by means of the polarized attitudes of characters in Three Years. ... Three Years and In the Ravine (1900) feature factory owners and workers. "