Literature
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A Dead Body by Anton Chekhov
A STILL August night. A mist is rising slowly from the fields and casting an opaque veil over everything within…
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A Defenseless Creature by Anton Chekhov
IN spite of a violent attack of gout in the night and the nervous exhaustion left by it, Kistunov went…
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A Doctor’s Visit by Anton Chekhov
THE Professor received a telegram from the Lyalikovs’ factory; he was asked to come as quickly as possible. The daughter…
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A Father by Anton Chekhov
“I ADMIT I have had a drop. . . . You must excuse me. I went into a beer shop…
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After The Theatre by Anton Chekhov
NADYA ZELENIN had just come back with her mamma from the theatre where she had seen a performance of “Yevgeny…
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Agafya by Anton Chekhov
DURING my stay in the district of S. I often used to go to see the watchman Savva Stukatch, or…
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A Gentleman Friend by Anton Chekhov
THE charming Vanda, or, as she was described in her passport, the “Honourable Citizen Nastasya Kanavkin,” found herself, on leaving…
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A Happy Ending by Anton Chekhov
LYUBOV GRIGORYEVNA, a substantial, buxom lady of forty who undertook matchmaking and many other matters of which it is usual…
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A Happy Man by Anton Chekhov
THE passenger train is just starting from Bologoe, the junction on the Petersburg-Moscow line. In a second-class smoking compartment five…
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A Joke by Anton Chekhov
IT was a bright winter midday. . . . There was a sharp snapping frost and the curls on Nadenka’s…
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