Literature
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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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Talent by Anton Chekhov
AN artist called Yegor Savvitch, who was spending his summer holidays at the house of an officer’s widow, was sitting…
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Terror by Anton Chekhov
My Friend’s Story DMITRI PETROVITCH SILIN had taken his degree and entered the government service in Petersburg, but at thirty…
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The Album by Anton Chekhov
KRATEROV, the titular councillor, as thin and slender as the Admiralty spire, stepped forward and, addressing Zhmyhov, said: “Your Excellency!…
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The Beauties by Anton Chekhov
II REMEMBER, when I was a high school boy in the fifth or sixth class, I was driving with my…
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