Literature
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The Murder by Anton Chekhov
IThe evening service was being celebrated at Progonnaya Station. Before the great ikon, painted in glaring colours on a background…
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The New Villa by Anton Chekhov
I Two miles from the village of Obrutchanovo a huge bridge was being built. From the village, which stood up…
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The Old House by Anton Chekhov
A Story told by a Houseowner THE old house had to be pulled down that a new one might be…
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The Orator by Anton Chekhov
ONE fine morning the collegiate assessor, Kirill Ivanovitch Babilonov, who had died of the two afflictions so widely spread in…
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The Party by Anton Chekhov
IAFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband’s name-day was being celebrated,…
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The Petchenyeg by Anton Chekhov
IVAN ABRAMITCH ZHMUHIN, a retired Cossack officer, who had once served in the Caucasus, but now lived on his own…
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The Pipe by Anton Chekhov
MELITON SHISHKIN, a bailiff from the Dementyev farm, exhausted by the sultry heat of the fir-wood and covered with spiders’…
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The Post by Anton Chekhov
IT was three o’clock in the night. The postman, ready to set off, in his cap and his coat, with…
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The Princess by Anton Chekhov
A CARRIAGE with four fine sleek horses drove in at the big so-called Red Gate of the N— Monastery. While…
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The Privy Councillor by Anton Chekhov
AT the beginning of April in 1870 my mother, Klavdia Arhipovna, the widow of a lieutenant, received from her brother…
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