Publisher's Synopsis
"Fat and Thin" is a satirical short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in the No. 40, 1 October 1883 issue of Oskolki magazine, signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте). It was included into Chekhov's 1886 collection Motley Stories (Пёстрые рассказы) published in Saint Petersburg and later in the Volume 1 of the Adolf Marks's Chekhov's Collected Works (1899).