Anton Chekhov 
My Life the Story of a Provincial 

My Life is an 1896 novella by Anton Chekhov, set in a provincial southern Russian city not unlike Chekhov’s own hometown of Taganrog. “My Life”is a story about a rebellious young man so disgusted with bourgeois society that he drops out to live amongst the working classes, only to find himself confronted by the morally and mentally deadening effects of provincialism.