In the English-speaking world Anton Chekhov is by far better

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In the English-speaking world Anton Chekhov is by far better known for his plays than for his short stories, but during his lifetime Chekhov's stories made him popular while his plays were given a more ambivalent reception, even by his fellow writers.

A) by far better known for his plays than for his short stories, but during his
B) by far better known for his plays than he was for his short stories, but during his lifetime
C) known far better for his plays than he was for his short stories, but during his lifetime it was
D) far better known for his plays than were his short stories, but it was during his lifetime that
E) far better known for his plays than for his short stories, but during his lifetime

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by melguy » Tue Oct 18, 2016 10:14 pm
This is a parallelism problem.

..far better known for x than for y