Literature
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In Trouble by Anton Chekhov
PYOTR SEMYONITCH, the bank manager, together with the book-keeper, his assistant, and two members of the board, were taken in…
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Ionitch by Anton Chekhov
IWHEN visitors to the provincial town S—- complained of the dreariness and monotony of life, the inhabitants of the town,…
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Ivan Matveyich by Anton Chekhov
BETWEEN five and six in the evening. A fairly well-known man of learning — we will call him simply the…
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Joy by Anton Chekhov
IT was twelve o’clock at night.Mitya Kuldarov, with excited face and ruffled hair, flew into his parents’ flat, and hurriedly…
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Kashtanka by Anton Chekhov
IMisbehaviour A YOUNG dog, a reddish mongrel, between a dachshund and a “yard-dog,” very like a fox in face, was…
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Ladies by Anton Chekhov
FYODOR PETROVITCH the Director of Elementary Schools in the N. District, who considered himself a just and generous man, was…
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Lights by Anton Chekhov
THE dog was barking excitedly outside. And Ananyev the engineer, his assistant called Von Schtenberg, and I went out of…
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Love by Anton Chekhov
THREE o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking in at my windows and caressingly winking at me…
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Malingerers by Anton Chekhov
MARFA PETROVNA PETCHONKIN, the General’s widow, who has been practising for ten years as a homeopathic doctor, is seeing patients…
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Mari D’elle by Anton Chekhov
IT was a free night. Natalya Andreyevna Bronin (her married name was Nikitin), the opera singer, is lying in her…
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