Literature
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A Pink Stocking by Anton Chekhov
DULL, rainy day. The sky is completely covered with heavy clouds, and there is no prospect of the rain ceasing.…
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A Play by Anton Chekhov
PAVEL VASSILYEVITCH, there’s a lady here, asking for you,” Luka announced. “She’s been waiting a good hour. . . .”…
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A Problem by Anton Chekhov
THE strictest measures were taken that the Uskovs’ family secret might not leak out and become generally known. Half of…
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Ariadne by Anton Chekhov
ON the deck of a steamer sailing from Odessa to Sevastopol, a rather good-looking gentleman, with a little round beard,…
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Art by Anton Chekhov
A GLOOMY winter morning. On the smooth and glittering surface of the river Bystryanka, sprinkled here and there with snow,…
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A Slander by Anton Chekhov
SERGE KAPITONICH AHINEEV, the writing master, was marrying his daughter to the teacher of history and geography. The wedding festivities…
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A Story Without An End by Anton Chekhov
SOON after two o’clock one night, long ago, the cook, pale and agitated, rushed unexpectedly into my study and informed…
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A Story Without A Title by Anton Chekhov
IN the fifth century, just as now, the sun rose every morning and every evening retired to rest. In the…
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At A Country House by Anton Chekhov
PAVEL ILYITCH RASHEVITCH walked up and down, stepping softly on the floor covered with little Russian plaids, and casting a…
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At A Summer Villa by Anton Chekhov
I LOVE YOU. You are my life, my happiness — everything to me! Forgive the avowal, but I have not…
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