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Darkness by Anton Chekhov
A YOUNG peasant, with white eyebrows and eyelashes and broad cheekbones, in a torn sheepskin and big black felt overboots,…
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Dreams by Anton Chekhov
Two peasant constables — one a stubby, black-bearded individual with such exceptionally short legs that if you looked at him…
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Drunk by Anton Chekhov
A MANUFACTURER called Frolov, a handsome dark man with a round beard, and a soft, velvety expression in his eyes,…
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Easter Eve by Anton Chekhov
“They’ll begin singing the Easter hymn directly…and Nikolay is gone; there was nothing written dearer to him than that hymn.…
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Enemies by Anton Chekhov
BETWEEN nine and ten on a dark September evening the only son of the district doctor, Kirilov, a child of…
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Expensive Lessons by Anton Chekhov
FOR a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconvenience. Vorotov became acutely conscious of it…
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Fat And Thin by Anton Chekhov
Time and again, Chekhov used his stories to attack and pillory the strict vertical nature of Russian society during his…
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From The Diary Of A Violent-Tempered Man by Anton Chekhov
I AM a serious person and my mind is of a philosophic bent. My vocation is the study of finance.…
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Frost by Anton Chekhov
A “POPULAR” fte with a philanthropic object had been arranged on the Feast of Epiphany in the provincial town of…
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Gone Astray by Anton Chekhov
A COUNTRY village wrapped in the darkness of night. One o’clock strikes from the belfry. Two lawyers, called Kozyavkin and…
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