Anton Checkov's plays and stories are collected here in one giant collection. An active table of contents makes it easy to navigate to the work you want to find. Works include: STORIES: The Bishop and Other Stories The Chorus Girl and Other Stories The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories The... read more
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Contents The Cook's Wedding Sleepy Children The Runaway Grisha Oysters Home A Classical Student Vanka An Incident A Day In The Country Boys Shrove Tuesday The Old House In Passion Week Whitebrow Kashtanka A Chameleon The...
'...are talking among ourselves, please don't put your word in. It's really annoying." And she would look at him with astonishment and dismay, and ask him in alarm: "But, Voloditchka, what am I to talk about?" And with tears in her eyes she...
A further collection of stories by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). consists of "The Duel", "Murder", "The Wife", "The Black Monk", "Terror" and "Big Volodya and Small Volodya", and complements two existing anthologies of short stories, "Lady With...
Stories included besides the title story are: A Doctor's Visit, An Upheaval, Ionitch, The Head of the Family, The Black Monk, Volodya, An Anonymous Story, and The Husband.
AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband's name-day was being celebrated, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talking incessantly, the clatter of the crockery, the...
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I assured myself that my love had died long ago that I was too much absorbed in my work to think seriously of my relations with my wife. But alas! that was only what I imagined. When my wife talked aloud downstairs I listened intently to her...
Ivanov, a driving force in local government and a visionary landowner, feels burnt out at thirty-five. Once the pioneer of scientific farming methods and of education for peasants, he now drowns in bureaucracy and debt, his large estate...
Anton Chekhov wrote that "narrative is my legal wife and drama a flamboyant, rowdy, impudent, exhausting mistress." At a time when the Russian stage was dominated by farces, formulaic melodramas, and vaudevilles, Chekhov created plays that...
The Seagull , a spectacular failure on its first appearance, was the play that, on its second, established Anton Chekhov as an important and revolutionary dramatist. Here, amid the weariness of life in the country, the famous actress Arkadina...
In "Uncle Vanya," a retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left by his deceased first wife to find themselves overwhelmed by the stagnant inevitability of the rituals of their life and class, and mercilessly...
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