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A Nervous Breakdown by Anton Chekhov
A MEDICAL student called Mayer, and a pupil of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture called Rybnikov, went…
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A Nightmare by Anton Chekhov
Kunin, a young man of thirty, who was a permanent member of the Rural Board, on returning from Petersburg to…
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An Inadvertence by Anton Chekhov
PYOTR PETROVITCH STRIZHIN, the nephew of Madame Ivanov, the colonel’s widow — the man whose new goloshes were stolen last…
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An Incident by Anton Chekhov
MORNING. Brilliant sunshine is piercing through the frozen lacework on the window-panes into the nursery. Vanya, a boy of six,…
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An Inquiry by Anton Chekhov
IT was midday. Voldyrev, a tall, thick-set country gentleman with a cropped head and prominent eyes, took off his overcoat,…
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Anna On The Neck by Anton Chekhov
IAFTER the wedding they had not even light refreshments; the happy pair simply drank a glass of champagne, changed into…
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An Upheaval by Anton Chekhov
MASHENKA PAVLETSKY, a young girl who had only just finished her studies at a boarding school, returning from a walk…
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Anyuta by Anton Chekhov
IN the cheapest room of a big block of furnished apartments Stepan Klotchkov, a medical student in his third year,…
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A Peculiar Man by Anton Chekhov
BETWEEN twelve and one at night a tall gentleman, wearing a top-hat and a coat with a hood, stops before…
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A Pink Stocking by Anton Chekhov
DULL, rainy day. The sky is completely covered with heavy clouds, and there is no prospect of the rain ceasing.…
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