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  • The Schoolmistress

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    Follows Maria's tumultuous journey home after receiving her salary from the school board. 'The Schoolmistress' features Chekhov's much-celebrated realist prose as he illustrates the misery of the poor schoolmistress and her surroundings.While Maria must fight for respect from her superiors and the townsfolk, she dreams of a better life with the wealthy and handsome Hanov. Chekhov's social ... Leer más

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  • The Duel

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    A modern-day Hamlet, Laevsky enjoys blaming his issues on the corrupting influence of his time and civilization. Van Koren, on the other hand, believes strongly in the survival of the fittest. When the two of them become tangled in a game of infidelity, debts, and deception, it is not long until a physical duel ensues. A complex tale of transformation, human fragility and forgiveness, it was ... Leer más

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  • An Anonymous Story

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    'An Anonymous Story' follows an anonymous assassin, sent to infiltrate the home of Orlov, the wealthy son of a judge. Disguised as a servant, the revolutionary perfectly blends into the household and observes them from within. However, his soul is soon disturbed by the womanising Orlov's attitude towards his wife, and the assassin's mission takes a dramatic turn. 'An Anonymous Story' is a fast ... Leer más

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  • The Black Monk

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    A short story written in the vein of the Gothic tradition, "The Black Monk" tells of a Kovrin, a Russian scholar, who is suffering from stress and overworking. He goes to the countryside, to an idyllic garden, where he starts seeing a ghostly apparition in the figure of a black monk. Step by step, Kovrin begins to lose his sanity and health, largely due to the influence of the black monk. Touching ... Leer más

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  • Sorrow

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    Well, you brought this on yourself. Not only were you browsing the Russian classics section – literature with a reputation so dour and depressing that it has reached meme status, but when you on top of that pick out the one book titled "Sorrow", we can only imagine that you've taken the advice of the people complaining about your sunny disposition and the spring in your step. Fortunately, you're ... Leer más

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  • А Nightmare

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    'A Nightmare' is a short story by Anton Chekhov about two men, one a penniless priest and the other a wealthy aristocrat. The now desperate priest is too proud to ask for assistance, whereas the conniving aristocrat is plotting against him because of his oddball behavior. Where exactly will this dangerous game of cat-and-mouse carry the two?A masterful portrayal of human emotions and the ... Leer más

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  • The Party

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    Olga Mikhaylovna is pregnant, and she has spent the day plodding through her husbands name-day party, waiting on their guest's hand and foot. Tired of being pleasant to everyone, she takes a moment to herself in the garden. Her peace is shattered as she spots her husband talking to another woman, and as her suspicions begin to mount, Anton Chekhov creates a moving, gut-wrenching portrait of the ... Leer más

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  • Typhus

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    'Typhus' is a deeply personal short story by Chekhov, about a young man, Klimov, returning home on a train while suffering from a terrible illness. The tale begins with Chekhov's classic dark humour as the protagonist is disgusted with the characters that surround him. The story changes as Chekhov illustrates a slowly creeping illness that engulfs the main character and terrifyingly distorts the ... Leer más

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  • In the Graveyard

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    'In the Graveyard' is a tale that is at once both hopeful and hopeless in which Anton Chekhov explores the tragedies of life with a comic touch. The short story opens with friends wandering a graveyard discussing a man they once knew whose 'digestion was fine' but still died due to his nosiness. This mixture of the mundane and the mystical which is fundamental to much of Chekhov's celebrated ... Leer más

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  • The Witch

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    Saveliy is highly suspicious that his wife, Raisa is a witch. She is constantly luring people into their poverty-ridden house, under the pretence of shelter from a storm, in order to seduce them. His suspicions seem to be confirmed as a mailman and his coachman appear at their doorway, unable to contend with the harsh winds outside. Bursting with dialogue, and modelled on the real-life, secluded ... Leer más

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  • Gone Astray

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    'Gone Astray' is one of Chekhov's earlier comedic short stories that is a light-hearted romp about two drunken lawyers trying to find their way home at night. Chekhov's masterful use of irony is present here as one of the lawyers, Kozyavkin, accidentally violates the law by breaking into a house he believes to be his own. The short features some of Chekhov's most farcical images, such as the ... Leer más

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  • Beauties

    Traducido por Constance Garnett ...
    Series series World Classics
    'Beauties' is a short story by Chekhov that tells the tale of a young schoolboy travelling through the countryside with his grandfather on a sweltering summer day. The boy is uninterested in his dreary dustbowl surroundings until they arrive at the house of an old friend and the boy becomes transfixed by an astonishingly beautiful young woman. 'Beauties' is a perfect encapsulation of Chekhov's ... Leer más

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