Product Description: Frau Popow. Luka. Frau Popow (in tiefer Trauer, sitzt auf dem Sofa rechts, blickt unverwandt eine Photographie an). Luka. Es ist nicht recht, gnädige Frau… Sie richten sich zugrunde. Die Magd und die Köchin sind Beeren suchen gegangen, alles, was atmet, freut sich des Daseins, selbst die Katze versteht sich auf ihr Vergnügen – schleicht im Hof umher und fängt Vögel; bloß Sie hocken den ganzen Tag im Zimmer, gerade wie in einem Kloster und haben so gar keine Freude… Ja, wahrhaftig, wenn man genau nachrechnet, haben Sie ein Jahr lang das Haus nicht verlassen...read more

Product Description: While Anton Chekhov is best known for his lengthier plays, he also wrote one-act comedies. The Boor is one of those. In The Boor, a crude and rude landowner, Smirnov, visits a grieving widow, Yelena, to collect on a debt her departed husband owed him...read more

Product Description: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...read more

Product Description: A Nightmare is a short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history...read more

Product Description: Ivan Matveyitch is a short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history...read more

Product Description: The Witch is a short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekho. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history...read more

Product Description: Agafya is a short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov detailing a late night encounter between an intelligent but lazy village dropout and the peasant wife of a signalman. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history...read more

Product Description: Easter Eve is a short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history...read more

Product Description: An Upheaval is a short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history...read more

Product Description: The Swedish Match is a short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history...read more

Product Description: Tschubukow. Dann Lomow im Frack und in weißen Handschuhen. Tschubukow (geht ihm zur Begrüßung entgegen). Liebster! Wen sehe ich da! Iwan Wassiljitsch! Höchst erfreut! (Drückt ihm die Hand.) Ist das aber eine Überraschung, mein Gutester… Wie geht es Ihnen? Lomow...read more

Product Description: "H'm! And you scarcely remember your mother, I suppose?" "No, Lucian; I was such a mere babe when she died, I have often wondered what it would be like to have a mother. Auntie Hagar was always very kind to me, however; so kind, in fact, that my step-father, fearing, he said, that I would grow up self-willed and disobedient, sent her away, and procured the services of the ugly old woman you saw in the garden...read more

Product Description: A collection of various of Anton Chekhov's short stories including: THE BISHOP, THE LETTER, EASTER EVE, A NIGHTMARE, THE MURDER, UPROOTED, and THE STEPPE Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain...read more

THE PARTY TERROR A WOMAN'S KINGDOM A PROBLEM THE KISS 'ANNA ON THE NECK' THE TEACHER OF LITERATURE NOT WANTED TYPHUS A MISFORTUNE A TRIFLE FROM LIFE THE PARTY I 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 stupidity of the servants, the long intervals between the courses, and the stays she had put on to conceal her condition from the visitors, wearied her to exhaustion. She longed to get away from the house, to sit in the shade and rest her heart with thoughts of the baby which was to be born to her in another two months. She was used to these thoughts coming to her as she turned to the left out of the big avenue into the narrow path. Here in the thick shade of the plums and cherry-trees the dry branches used to scratch her neck and shoulders; a spider's web would settle on her face, and there would rise up in her mind the image of a little creature of undetermined sex and undefined features, and it began to seem as though it were not the spider's web that tickled her face and neck caressingly, but that little creature. When, at the end of the path, a thin wicker hurdle came into sight, and behind it podgy beehives with tiled roofs; when in the motionless, stagnant air there came a smell of hay and honey, and a soft buzzing of bees was audible, then the little creature would take complete possession of Olga Mihalovna. She used to sit down on a bench near the shanty woven of branches, and fall to thinking.

Product Description: Frau Popow. Luka. Frau Popow (in tiefer Trauer, sitzt auf dem Sofa rechts, blickt unverwandt eine Photographie an). Luka. Es ist nicht recht, gnädige Frau… Sie richten sich zugrunde. Die Magd und die Köchin sind Beeren suchen gegangen, alles, was atmet, freut sich des Daseins, selbst die Katze versteht sich auf ihr Vergnügen – schleicht im Hof umher und fängt Vögel; bloß Sie hocken den ganzen Tag im Zimmer, gerade wie in einem Kloster und haben so gar keine Freude… Ja, wahrhaftig, wenn man genau nachrechnet, haben Sie ein Jahr lang das Haus nicht verlassen...read more

Product Description: The garden of IVANOFF'S country place. On the left is a terrace and the facade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broad semicircular lawn, from which paths lead to right and left into a garden. On the right are several garden benches and tables...read more

THE PARTY TERROR A WOMAN'S KINGDOM A PROBLEM THE KISS 'ANNA ON THE NECK' THE TEACHER OF LITERATURE NOT WANTED TYPHUS A MISFORTUNE A TRIFLE FROM LIFE THE PARTY I 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 stupidity of the servants, the long intervals between the courses, and the stays she had put on to conceal her condition from the visitors, wearied her to exhaustion. She longed to get away from the house, to sit in the shade and rest her heart with thoughts of the baby which was to be born to her in another two months. She was used to these thoughts coming to her as she turned to the left out of the big avenue into the narrow path. Here in the thick shade of the plums and cherry-trees the dry branches used to scratch her neck and shoulders; a spider's web would settle on her face, and there would rise up in her mind the image of a little creature of undetermined sex and undefined features, and it began to seem as though it were not the spider's web that tickled her face and neck caressingly, but that little creature. When, at the end of the path, a thin wicker hurdle came into sight, and behind it podgy beehives with tiled roofs; when in the motionless, stagnant air there came a smell of hay and honey, and a soft buzzing of bees was audible, then the little creature would take complete possession of Olga Mihalovna. She used to sit down on a bench near the shanty woven of branches, and fall to thinking.

Product Description: FYODOR LUKITCH SYSOEV, the master of the factory school maintained at the expense of the firm of Kulikin, was getting ready for the annual dinner. Every year after the school examination the board of managers gave a dinner at which the inspector of elementary schools, all who had conducted the examinations, and all the managers and foremen of the factory were present...read more

Product Description: ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot and stifling. Kolpakov, who had just dined and drunk a whole bottle of inferior port, felt ill-humoured and out of sorts...read more

Product Description: My neighbor V.N.S. told me that his uncle Fet-Shenshin, the famous poet, when driving through the Mokhovaia Street, would invariably let down the window of his carriage and spit at the University. He would expectorate and spit: Bah! His coachman got so used to this that every time he drove past the University, he would stop...read more

Product Description: A HOSPITAL assistant, called Yergunov, an empty-headed fellow, known throughout the district as a great braggart and drunkard, was returning one evening in Christmas week from the hamlet of Ryepino, where he had been to make some purchases for the hospital...read more

"[...]was absolutely alone in his work. The Zemsky Natchalniks, upon whom the government relied principally to carry out the census, were inert, and for the most part the work was left to private initiative. In February, 1897, Chekhov was completely engrossed by a project of building a "People's Palace" in Moscow. "People's Palaces" had not been thought of; the common people spent their leisure in drink-shops. The "People's Palace" in Moscow was designed on broad principles; there was to be a library, a reading-room, lecture-rooms, [...]".