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The Privy Councillor by Anton Chekhov
AT the beginning of April in 1870 my mother, Klavdia Arhipovna, the widow of a lieutenant, received from her brother…
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The Requiem by Anton Chekhov
IN the village church of Verhny Zaprudy mass was just over. The people had begun moving and were trooping out…
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The Runaway by Anton Chekhov
IT had been a long business. At first Pashka had walked with his mother in the rain, at one time…
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The Safety Match by Anton Chekhov
The Safety Match is Chekhov’s clever parody, a Russian whodunnit. On the morning of October 6, 1885, in the office…
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The Schoolmaster by Anton Chekhov
FYODOR LUKITCH SYSOEV, the master of the factory school maintained at the expense of the firm of Kulikin, was getting…
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The Schoolmistress by Anton Chekhov
AT half-past eight they drove out of the town. The highroad was dry, a lovely April sun was shining warmly,…
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The Shoemaker And The Devil by Anton Chekhov
The Shoemaker and the Devil was published by Anton Chekhov in 1888. “How splendid it would be if the rich,…
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The Slanderer by Anton Chekhov
Sergey Kapitonlch Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave his daughter Natalya in marriage to the teacher of history and geography,…
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The Steppe by Anton Chekhov
IEARLY one morning in July a shabby covered chaise, one of those antediluvian chaises without springs in which no one…
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The Student by Anton Chekhov
At first the weather was fine and still. The thrushes were calling, and in the swamps close by something alive…
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