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Anton Chekhov

The Short Stories

  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    I am still tempted to imagine that nature had some grand, marvellous design when she created that girl.
  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    I was ashamed at the sight of the footmen, the coachmen, and the workmen who met us. It always seemed to me they were looking at me and thinking: “Why are you doing nothing?”
  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    The Russian actor does not know how to be funny; he acts with profundity even in a farce.
  • Anas Amerhas quoted3 years ago
    Good-bye, Yegor Vlassitch,” whispered Pelagea, and she stood on tiptoe to see the white cap once more
  • Anas Amerhas quoted3 years ago
    eyes were full of sadness and tender affection
  • Anas Amerhas quoted3 years ago
    The women from our village are working here, so I have come with them.... As a labourer, Yegor Vlassitch
  • Anas Amerhas quoted3 years ago
    And when are you coming to the village?” she asked softly.

    “I have no reason to
  • Anas Amerhas quoted3 years ago
    They give me a rouble and a half a month
  • Anas Amerhas quoted3 years ago
    deliberately uncocking the gun
  • Anas Amerhas quoted3 years ago
    sturgeon was a bit too strong!”

    These words, so ordinary, for some reason moved Gurov to indignation
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