Literature
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The Witch by Anton Chekhov
It was approaching nightfall. The sexton, Savly Gykin, was lying in his huge bed in the hut adjoining the church.…
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Three Years by Anton Chekhov
IIT was dark, and already lights had begun to gleam here and there in the houses, and a pale moon…
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Too Early! by Anton Chekhov
THE bells are ringing for service in the village of Shalmovo. The sun is already kissing the earth on the…
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Typhus by Anton Chekhov
A YOUNG lieutenant called Klimov was travelling from Petersburg to Moscow in a smoking carriage of the mail train. Opposite…
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Uprooted by Anton Chekhov
An Incident of My TravelsI WAS on my way back from evening service. The clock in the belfry of the…
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Vanka by Anton Chekhov
Vanka is one of Chekhov’s many stories with a child-family separation theme. When Anton was fifteen he was separated from…
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Verotchka by Anton Chekhov
IVAN ALEXEYITCH OGNEV remembers how on that August evening he opened the glass door with a rattle and went out…
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Volodya by Anton Chekhov
IVAN ALEXEYITCH OGNEV remembers how on that August evening he opened the glass door with a rattle and went out…
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Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov
IIn the hospital yard there stands a small lodge surrounded by a perfect forest of burdocks, nettles, and wild hemp.…
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Whitebrow by Anton Chekhov
A HUNGRY she-wolf got up to go hunting. Her cubs, all three of them, were sound asleep, huddled in a…
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