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In The Coach-house by Anton Chekhov
IT was between nine and ten o’clock in the evening. Stepan the coachman, Mihailo the house-porter, Alyoshka the coachman’s grandson,…
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In The Court by Anton Chekhov
AT the district town of N. in the cinnamon-coloured government house in which the Zemstvo, the sessional meetings of the…
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In The Dark by Anton Chekhov
A FLY of medium size made its way into the nose of the assistant procurator, Gagin. It may have been…
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In The Graveyard by Anton Chekhov
THE wind has got up, friends, and it is beginning to get dark. Hadn’t we better take ourselves off before…
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In The Ravine by Anton Chekhov
ITHE village of Ukleevo lay in a ravine so that only the belfry and the chimneys of the printed cottons…
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In Trouble by Anton Chekhov
PYOTR SEMYONITCH, the bank manager, together with the book-keeper, his assistant, and two members of the board, were taken in…
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Ionitch by Anton Chekhov
IWHEN visitors to the provincial town S—- complained of the dreariness and monotony of life, the inhabitants of the town,…
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Ivan Matveyich by Anton Chekhov
BETWEEN five and six in the evening. A fairly well-known man of learning — we will call him simply the…
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Joy by Anton Chekhov
IT was twelve o’clock at night.Mitya Kuldarov, with excited face and ruffled hair, flew into his parents’ flat, and hurriedly…
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Kashtanka by Anton Chekhov
IMisbehaviour A YOUNG dog, a reddish mongrel, between a dachshund and a “yard-dog,” very like a fox in face, was…
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