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Agafya by Anton Chekhov
DURING my stay in the district of S. I often used to go to see the watchman Savva Stukatch, or…
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A Gentleman Friend by Anton Chekhov
THE charming Vanda, or, as she was described in her passport, the “Honourable Citizen Nastasya Kanavkin,” found herself, on leaving…
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A Happy Ending by Anton Chekhov
LYUBOV GRIGORYEVNA, a substantial, buxom lady of forty who undertook matchmaking and many other matters of which it is usual…
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A Happy Man by Anton Chekhov
THE passenger train is just starting from Bologoe, the junction on the Petersburg-Moscow line. In a second-class smoking compartment five…
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A Joke by Anton Chekhov
IT was a bright winter midday. . . . There was a sharp snapping frost and the curls on Nadenka’s…
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A Lady’s Story by Anton Chekhov
NINE years ago Pyotr Sergeyitch, the deputy prosecutor, and I were riding towards evening in hay-making time to fetch the…
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A Living Chattle by Anton Chekhov
GROHOLSKY embraced Liza, kept kissing one after another all her little fingers with their bitten pink nails, and laid her…
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A Malefactor by Anton Chekhov
An entertaining reflection on “property rights” and the public good.AN exceedingly lean little peasant, in a striped hempen shirt and…
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A Misfortune by Anton Chekhov
SOFYA PETROVNA, the wife of Lubyantsev the notary, a handsome young woman of five-and-twenty, was walking slowly along a track…
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A Mystery by Anton Chekhov
ON the evening of Easter Sunday the actual Civil Councillor, Navagin, on his return from paying calls, picked up the…
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