Archives for Chekhov, Anton

Small Fry by Anton Chekhov

Published On Saturday, April 30, 2011. Under: Chekhov, Anton, Featured.
Small Fry by Anton Chekhov "HONORED Sir, Father and Benefactor!" a petty clerk called Nevyrazimov was writing a rough copy of an Easter congratulatory letter. "I trust that you may spend this Holy Day even as many more to come, in good health and prosperity. And to ...

The Man in a Case by Anton Chekhov

Published On Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Under: Chekhov, Anton, Featured.
The Man in a Case by Anton Chekhov AT the furthest end of the village of Mironositskoe some belated sportsmen lodged for the night in the elder Prokofy's barn. There were two of them, the veterinary surgeon Ivan Ivanovitch and the schoolmaster Burkin. Ivan Ivanovitch had a ...

A Happy Ending by Anton Chekhov

Published On Sunday, February 27, 2011. Under: Chekhov, Anton, Featured.
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 to speak only in whispers, had come to see Stytchkin, the head guard, on a day when he was off duty. ...

About Love by Anton Chekhov

Published On Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Under: Chekhov, Anton, Featured.
About Love by Anton Chekhov AT lunch next day there were very nice pies, crayfish, and mutton cutlets; and while we were eating, Nikanor, the cook, came up to ask what the visitors would like for dinner. He was a man of medium height, with a puffy ...

AT CHRISTMAS TIME by Anton Chekhov

Published On Monday, November 22, 2010. Under: Chekhov, Anton, Featured.
  AT CHRISTMAS TIME by Anton Chekhov   I "WHAT shall I write?" said Yegor, and he dipped his pen in the ink. Vasilisa had not seen her daughter for four years. Her daughter Yefimya had gone after her wedding to Petersburg, had sent them two letters, and since then seemed ...

Difficult People by Anton Chekhov

Published On Saturday, November 06, 2010. Under: Chekhov, Anton, Featured.
Difficult People  by Anton Chekhov YEVGRAF IVANOVITCH SHIRYAEV, a small farmer, whose father, a parish priest, now deceased, had received a gift of three hundred acres of land from Madame Kuvshinnikov, a general's widow, was standing in a corner before a copper washing-stand, washing his hands. As ...

A DEAD BODY by Anton Chekhov

Published On Saturday, September 18, 2010. Under: Chekhov, Anton, Featured.
A DEAD BODY by Anton Chekhov A STILL August night. A mist is rising slowly from the fields and casting an opaque veil over everything within eyesight. Lighted up by the moon, the mist gives the impression at one moment of a calm, boundless sea, at the ...

The Runaway by Anton Chekhov

Published On Sunday, June 27, 2010. Under: Chekhov, Anton, Featured.
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 across a mown field, then by forest paths, where the yellow leaves stuck to his boots; he had walked until it was ...

THE BET by Anton Chekhov

Published On Friday, April 16, 2010. Under: Chekhov, Anton.
THE BET by Anton Chekhov IT WAS a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn evening. There had been many clever men there, and there had been ...

The Lady With The Dog by Anton Chekhov

Published On Sunday, February 21, 2010. Under: Chekhov, Anton.
Walking woman with dog by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner The Lady With The Dog I IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly ...