About the book: year / "The Man in a Case" is a story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, written in May - June 1898. It was first published in the magazine “Russian Thought”, 1898, No. 7. The first part of the “little trilogy”. The idea of ​​creating this series came to Chekhov in the summer. The “Little Trilogy” series, consisting of three stories: “The Man in a Case”, “Gooseberry”, “About Love”, should not have ended with the story “About Love”. While writing stories, there was a decline in creative activity, and later Chekhov was distracted by tuberculosis.