Literature
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Gusev by Anton Chekhov
IIT was getting dark; it would soon be night. Gusev, a discharged soldier, sat up in his hammock and said…
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Happiness by Anton Chekhov
FLOCK of sheep was spending the night on the broad steppe road that is called the great highway. Two shepherds…
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Home by Anton Chekhov
There’s more to Chekhov’s story than he reveals to the reader, as he explores the dynamic between a boy caught…
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Hush! by Anton Chekhov
IVAN YEGORITCH KRASNYHIN, a fourth-rate journalist, returns home late at night, grave and careworn, with a peculiar air of concentration.…
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In A Hotel by Anton Chekhov
“LET me tell you, my good man,” began Madame Nashatyrin, the colonel’s lady at No. 47, crimson and spluttering, as…
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In A Strange Land by Anton Chekhov
SUNDAY, midday. A landowner, called Kamyshev, is sitting in his dining-room, deliberately eating his lunch at a luxuriously furnished table.…
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In Exile by Anton Chekhov
OLD SEMYON, nicknamed Canny, and a young Tatar, whom no one knew by name, were sitting on the river-bank by…
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In Passion Week by Anton Chekhov
Go along, they are ringing already; and mind, don’t be naughty in church or God will punish you.” My mother…
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In The Coach-house by Anton Chekhov
IT was between nine and ten o’clock in the evening. Stepan the coachman, Mihailo the house-porter, Alyoshka the coachman’s grandson,…
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In The Court by Anton Chekhov
AT the district town of N. in the cinnamon-coloured government house in which the Zemstvo, the sessional meetings of the…
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