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“The Bet”— Anton Chekhov
“The Bet” by Anton Chekhov I It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was pacing from corner to corner of his study, recalling to his mind the party he gave in the autumn fifteen years before. There...
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“Excellent People”— Anton Chekhov
“Excellent People” by Anton Chekhov ONCE upon a time there lived in Moscow a man called Vladimir Semyonitch Liadovsky. He took his degree at the university in the faculty of law and had a post on the...
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“Easter Eve”— Anton Chekhov
I was standing on the bank of the River Goltva, waiting for the ferry-boat from the other side. At ordinary times the Goltva is a humble stream of moderate size, silent and pensive, gently glimmering...
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Portrait of Anton Chekhov — Isaac Levitan
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“A Transgression”— Anton Chekhov
“A Transgression” by Anton Chekhov A COLLEGIATE assessor called Miguev stopped at a telegraph-post in the course of his evening walk and heaved a deep sigh. A week before, as he was returning home from...
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Watch Kashtanka, A 1952 Animated Adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Short Story
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Seven Entries from Anton Chekhov’s Note-Books
Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life. Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom. Ordinary hypocrites pretend...
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Five Scenes from Anton Chekhov’s Note-Books
* * * * * Daughter: “Felt boots are not the correct thing.” Father: “Yes they are clumsy, I’ll have to get leather ones.” The father fell ill and his deportation to Siberia was postponed. Daughter:...
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“You’ve Got Worms” and Other Images from Anton Chekhov’s Note-Books
* * * * * The French say: “Laid comme un chenille”—as ugly as a caterpillar. * * * * * People are bachelors or old maids because they rouse no interest, not even a physical one. * * * * * The children...
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“Perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster” (Thoughts...
* * * * * A scholar, without talent, a blockhead, worked for twenty-four years and produced nothing good, gave the world only scholars as untalented and as narrow-minded as himself. At night he...
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Eight Images and Ideas from Anton Chekhov’s Note-Books
A schoolboy treats a lady to dinner in a restaurant. He has only one rouble, twenty kopecks. The bill comes to four roubles thirty kopecks. He has no money and begins to cry. The proprietor boxes his...
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“Life does not agree with philosophy: there is no happiness which is not...
* * * * * The hen sparrow believes that her cock sparrow is not chirping but singing beautifully. * * * * * When one is peacefully at home, life seems ordinary, but as soon as one walks into the...
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“The Darling”— Anton Chekhov
“The Darling” by Anton Chekhov Olenka, the daughter of the retired collegiate assessor Plemyanikov, was sitting on the back-door steps of her house doing nothing. It was hot, the flies were nagging and...
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“Only the useless is pleasurable” and other notes from Chekhov
* * * * * The hen sparrow believes that her cock sparrow is not chirping but singing beautifully. * * * * * When one is peacefully at home, life seems ordinary, but as soon as one walks into the...
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Eudora Welty on Austen, Chekhov, and Woolf
INTERVIEWER You wrote somewhere that we should still tolerate Jane Austen’s kind of family novel. Is Austen a kindred spirit? EUDORA WELTY Tolerate? I should just think so! I love and admire all she...
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“New literary forms always produce new forms of life” (From Chekhov’s...
* * * * * In the servants’ quarters Roman, a more or less dissolute peasant, thinks it his duty to look after the morals of the women servants. * * * * * A large fat barmaid—a cross between a pig and...
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“Viciousness is a bag with which man is born” (From Chekhov’s Note-Books)
* * * * * Viciousness is a bag with which man is born. * * * * * A lady looking like a fish standing on its head; her mouth like a slit, one longs to put a penny in it. * * * * * Russians abroad: the...
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“The Chemist’s Wife”— Anton Chekhov
“The Chemist’s Wife” by Anton Chekhov The little town of B——, consisting of two or three crooked streets, was sound asleep. There was a complete stillness in the motionless air. Nothing could be heard...
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“Talent”— Anton Chekhov
“Talent” by Anton Chekhov AN artist called Yegor Savvitch, who was spending his summer holidays at the house of an officer’s widow, was sitting on his bed, given up to the depression of morning. It was...
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“Vanka”— Anton Chekhov
“Vanka” by Anton Chekhov Nine-year-old Vanka Zhukov, who had been apprentice to the shoemaker Aliakhin for three months, did not go to bed the night before Christmas. He waited till the master and...
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