"The Death of a Government Clerk" was included in the collection Motley Stories. Other short story collections by Anton Chekhov include Gloomy People, Peasants and My Life, and In the Twilight. Other notable stories of Chekhov's that are concerned with class include "The First Class Passenger" and "In the Cart."
Other modern Russian writers who deal with similar themes to Chekhov include Nikolai Gogol ("The Nose," Dead Souls), Leo Tolstoy (Crime & Punishment, War and Peace), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamozov, The Idiot), and Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons).
