Literature
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Oysters by Anton Chekhov
I NEED no great effort of memory to recall, in every detail, the rainy autumn evening when I stood with…
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Panic Fears by Anton Chekhov
DURING all the years I have been living in this world I have only three times been terrified. The first…
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Peasants by Anton Chekhov
INIKOLAY TCHIKILDYEEV, a waiter in the Moscow hotel, Slavyansky Bazaar, was taken ill. His legs went numb and his gait…
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Peasant Wives by Anton Chekhov
IN the village of Reybuzh, just facing the church, stands a two-storeyed house with a stone foundation and an iron…
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Polinka by Anton Chekhov
IT is one o’clock in the afternoon. Shopping is at its height at the “Nouveaut’s de Paris,” a drapery establishment…
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Shrove Tuesday by Anton Chekhov
PAVEL VASSILITCH!” cries Pelageya Ivanovna, waking her husband. “Pavel Vassilitch! You might go and help Styopa with his lessons, he…
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Sleepy by Anton Chekhov
NIGHT. Varka, the little nurse, a girl of thirteen, is rocking the cradle in which the baby is lying, and…
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Small Fry by Anton Chekhov
“HONORED Sir, Father and Benefactor!” a petty clerk called Nevyrazimov was writing a rough copy of an Easter congratulatory letter.…
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Sorrow by Anton Chekhov
THE turner, Grigory Petrov, who had been known for years past as a splendid craftsman, and at the same time…
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Strong Impressions by Anton Chekhov
IT happened not so long ago in the Moscow circuit court. The jurymen, left in the court for the night,…
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