Literature
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Martyrs by Anton Chekhov
LIZOTCHKA KUDRINSKY, a young married lady who had many admirers, was suddenly taken ill, and so seriously that her husband…
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Minds In Ferment by Anton Chekhov
THE earth was like an oven. The afternoon sun blazed with such energy that even the thermometer hanging in the…
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Mire by Anton Chekhov
IGRACEFULLY swaying in the saddle, a young man wearing the snow-white tunic of an officer rode into the great yard…
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Misery by Anton Chekhov
THE twilight of evening. Big flakes of wet snow are whirling lazily about the street lamps, which have just been…
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My Life by Anton Chekhov
The Story of a Provincial I THE Superintendent said to me: “I only keep you out of regard for your…
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Neighbors by Anton Chekhov
“He had a deep conviction that they were unhappy, and could not be happy, and their love seemed to him…
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Nerves by Anton Chekhov
DMITRI OSIPOVITCH VAXIN, the architect, returned from town to his holiday cottage greatly impressed by the spiritualistic sance at which…
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Not Wanted by Anton Chekhov
BETWEEN six and seven o’clock on a July evening, a crowd of summer visitors — mostly fathers of families —…
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Oh! The Public! by Anton Chekhov
“HERE goes, I’ve done with drinking! Nothing. . . n-o-thing shall tempt me to it. It’s time to take myself…
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Old Age by Anton Chekhov
UZELKOV, an architect with the rank of civil councillor, arrived in his native town, to which he had been invited…
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