Literature
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At Christmas Time by Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov’s story At Christmas Time (1900) is about a married daughter estranged from her illiterate parents in the country,…
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At Home by Anton Chekhov
Chekhov’s existential story of hopelessness and lack of direction may resonate strongly with young adults in particular. Its protagonist succumbs…
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A Tragic Actor by Anton Chekhov
IT was the benefit night of Fenogenov, the tragic actor. They were acting “Prince Serebryany.” The tragedian himself was playing…
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A Transgression by Anton Chekhov
A COLLEGIATE assessor called Miguev stopped at a telegraph-post in the course of his evening walk and heaved a deep…
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A Trifle From Life by Anton Chekhov
A WELL-FED, red-cheeked young man called Nikolay Ilyitch Belyaev, of thirty-two, who was an owner of house property in Petersburg,…
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A Tripping Tongue by Anton Chekhov
NATALYA MIHALOVNA, a young married lady who had arrived in the morning from Yalta, was having her dinner, and in…
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A Trivial Incident by Anton Chekhov
IT was a sunny August midday as, in company with a Russian prince who had come down in the world,…
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A Troublesome Visitor by Anton Chekhov
IN the low-pitched, crooked little hut of Artyom, the forester, two men were sitting under the big dark ikon —…
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At The Barber’s by Anton Chekhov
MORNING. It is not yet seven o’clock, but Makar Kuzmitch Blyostken’s shop is already open. The barber himself, an unwashed,…
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A Woman’s Kingdom by Anton Chekhov
IChristmas Eve HERE was a thick roll of notes. It came from the bailiff at the forest villa; he wrote…
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