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  • Love and Other Stories

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Constance Garnett ...
    Series series Cletham Classics
    Anton Chekhov’s short stories are an extraordinary record of life in nineteenth-century Russia. Encompassing small-town coffin-makers, socially mobile Orthodox bishops, and wealthy Muscovite adulterers, the tales featured in Love and Other Stories are at once bleakly ironic and profoundly humane in their depiction of their subjects. These beautifully translated works demonstrate why Chekhov’s ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

    by Louisa May Alcott, James Allen, Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Anne Brontë, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, G. K. Chesterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, F. Marion Crawford, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Van Dyke, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Hardy, Frances Ridley Havergal, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Felicia Hemans, O. Henry, Oliver Herford, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Dean Howells, Ben Jonson, Washington Irving, John Keble, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Selma Lagerlöf, Winifred Kirkland, Andrew Lang, Stephen Leacock, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, George MacDonald, Charles Mackay, William Topaz McGonagall, Alice Duer Miller, Emily Huntington Miller, Olive Thorne Miller, John Milton, S. Weir Mitchell, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clement C. Moore, William Morris, Mary Noailles Murfree, John Mason Neale, Thomas Nelson Page, Elia W. Peattie, Marjorie Pickthall, Beatrix Potter, Katharine Pyle, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mary Darby Robinson, Christina Rossetti, Damon Runyon, Saki, Walter Scott, Edmund Hamilton Sears, William Shakespeare, Nora Archibald Smith, Robert Southwell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, John Banister Tabb, Booth Tarkington, Nahum Tate, Sara Teasdale, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Thring, Henry Timrod, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Tusser, Mark Twain, Katharine Tynan, Henry Vaughan, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Lucy Wheelock, John G. Whittier, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oscar Wilde, John Strange Winter, George Wither, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe ...
    If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

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  • Short Fiction

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Anton Chekhov is widely considered to be one of the greatest short story writers in history. A physician by day, he's famously quoted as saying, "Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress." Chekhov wrote nearly 300 short stories in his long writing career.His stories are famous for their ambiguous morality and often inconclusive nature. Chekhov was a firm believer that the role of ... Read more

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  • The Duel

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    The Duel is one of Chekhov's longest works, skirting the edge between novel and novella. Like many of Chekhov's works, it was first published as a serial.Laevsky is a womanizing drunkard, a slave to life's vices. His wantonness clashes with the moralistic zoologist Von Koren, who grows to despise Laevsky. Their mutual enmity culminates in a duel-though neither they, nor their friends, really want ... Read more

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  • Three Sisters

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    The sisters Olga, Masha, and Irina live with their brother Andrey in a provincial Russian town, and plan to return to Moscow where they grew up. Olga doesn't want to continue teaching; Masha is disillusioned in her marriage; Irina hopes to find true love; and Andrey shows promise of becoming a professor. When Andrey falls in love with Natasha, their hopes for change are dashed, bit by bit.First ... Read more

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  • The Cherry Orchard

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    The Cherry Orchard is Chekhov's final play. Madame Ranevsky and her brother Gaev attempt to save their estate and its large cherry orchard from being auctioned off to pay the mortgage. Lopahin, a wealthy merchant uncomfortable with his lower-class background, accompanies them suggesting business plans.The play was written in 1903 and performed in 1904. It dramatizes the massive social changes ... Read more

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  • The Big Book of Christmas: 140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols

    If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

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  • Uncle Vanya

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Serebryakov, an elderly professor, and his beautiful young wife Yelena return from the city to their country estate, managed by his daughter Sonya and brother-in-law Uncle Vanya. The country doctor Astrov goes to and from the estate, bored with his life. Sonya has feelings for Astrov, while both Astrov and Vanya compete for Yelena's affections.Vanya, nearing middle age, feels life has passed him ... Read more

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  • The Seagull

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    A fading actress, Madame Arkadin, visits her brother's country estate, where her son Treplev stages an avant-garde play. The play stars the woman he loves, Nina, an aspiring actress. Meanwhile, Masha pines for Treplev, while a schoolteacher pines for Masha. Trigorin, a novelist accompanying Madame Arkadin, attracts Nina's attention.Some characters desire love, some desire artistic success-but they ... Read more

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  • Chekhov's Little Comedies

    Five late-19th-century “Little Comedies” reveal Chekhov at his sharpest: lovers quarrel, creditors threaten, weddings unravel and a harried lecturer can’t stay on topic. In this collection, Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s translations reveal these short plays to be rich human portraits: funny, bruising and unexpectedly tender. Adapted by Nelson to form a single evening, ... Read more

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  • 3 Stories About Atheism

    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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  • A Mother's Day Story

    The Best Short Stories

    Series Book 1 - The Best Short Stories
    Ahmet Unal CAM, O. HENRY, FRANK STOCKTON, KATE CHOPIN, HH MUNRO (SAKI), NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, AMBROSE BIERCE, ANTON CHEKHOV, O. HENRY, ARABIAN NIGHTS, ARABIAN NIGHTS“ A Mother’s Day Story “Best Short Stories1ContentsA Mother’s Day StoryWitches’ BreadWoman or Tiger? Desiree’s BabyThe Open Window The Haunted Mind The Hanging in a HouseDeath of a Government Official The Furnished RoomThe Tale of ... Read more

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