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The Chorus Girl by Anton Chekhov
ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was…
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The Cook’s Wedding by Anton Chekhov
Some word definitions that will be helpful to the reader:pothouse: a pub.tram: horse-drawn streetcarTchernomor: Chernomor was an evil dwarf in…
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The Cossack by Anton Chekhov
MAXIM TORTCHAKOV, a farmer in southern Russia, was driving home from church with his young wife and bringing back an…
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The Darling by Anton Chekhov
Olenka, the daughter of the retired collegiate assessor, Plemyanniakov, was sitting in her back porch, lost in thought. It was…
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The Death Of A Government Clerk by Anton Chekhov
In this story, Chekhov takes aim at the overtly hierarchical order of Russian society, where lowly workers and clerks often…
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The Dependents by Anton Chekhov
MIHAIL PETROVITCH ZOTOV, a decrepit and solitary old man of seventy, belonging to the artisan class, was awakened by the…
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The Doctor by Anton Chekhov
IT was still in the drawing-room, so still that a house-fly that had flown in from outside could be distinctly…
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The Duel by Anton Chekhov
IIt was eight o’clock in the morning — the time when the officers, the local officials, and the visitors usually…
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The Examining Magistrate by Anton Chekhov
DISTRICT doctor and an examining magistrate were driving one fine spring day to an inquest. The examining magistrate, a man…
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The First-class Passenger by Anton Chekhov
A FIRST-CLASS passenger who had just dined at the station and drunk a little too much lay down on the…
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