Literature
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An Adventure by Anton Chekhov
IT was in that wood yonder, behind the creek, that it happened, sir. My father, the kingdom of Heaven be…
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An Anonymous Story by Anton Chekhov
THROUGH causes which it is not the time to go into in detail, I had to enter the service of…
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An Artist’s Story by Anton Chekhov
IT was six or seven years ago when I was living in one of the districts of the province of…
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An Avenger by Anton Chekhov
SHORTLY after finding his wife in flagrante delicto Fyodor Fyodorovitch Sigaev was standing in Schmuck and Co.’s, the gunsmiths, selecting…
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An Enigmatic Nature by Anton Chekhov
ON the red velvet seat of a first-class railway carriage a pretty lady sits half reclining. An expensive fluffy fan…
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A Nervous Breakdown by Anton Chekhov
A MEDICAL student called Mayer, and a pupil of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture called Rybnikov, went…
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A Nightmare by Anton Chekhov
Kunin, a young man of thirty, who was a permanent member of the Rural Board, on returning from Petersburg to…
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An Inadvertence by Anton Chekhov
PYOTR PETROVITCH STRIZHIN, the nephew of Madame Ivanov, the colonel’s widow — the man whose new goloshes were stolen last…
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An Incident by Anton Chekhov
MORNING. Brilliant sunshine is piercing through the frozen lacework on the window-panes into the nursery. Vanya, a boy of six,…
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An Inquiry by Anton Chekhov
IT was midday. Voldyrev, a tall, thick-set country gentleman with a cropped head and prominent eyes, took off his overcoat,…
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