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    Ladies and Other Stories: Ladies and Other Stories
    Ladies and Other Stories: Ladies and Other Stories
    Ladies and Other Stories: Ladies and Other Stories
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    Ladies and Other Stories: Ladies and Other Stories

    By Anton Chekhov

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    Chekhov has always been huge inspiration for many great writers who came in contact with Chekhov's art. Thomas Man wrote that Chekhov's short stories attain to full epic stature and can even surpass in intensity the great towering novels. 'If I understood that better in later life than in my youth, this was largely owing to my growing intimacy with Chekhov’s art; for his short stories rank with all that is greatest and best in European literature.' he concluded . But what is it that makes Chekhov's stories so poignant, so striking and so inspiring? This volume offers some Chekhov's best stories, including: An Inadvertence, A Tripping Tongue, Boots, In An Hotel, Ladies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInteractive Media
    Release dateNov 17, 2017
    ISBN9781787243613
    Ladies and Other Stories: Ladies and Other Stories
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    Anton Chekhov

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) was a Russian doctor, playwright, and author. His best known works include the plays The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1900), and The Cherry Orchard (1904), and the short stories “The Lady with the Dog,” “Peasants,” and “The Darling.” One of the most influential and widely anthologized writers in Russian history, Chekhov spent most of his career as a practicing physician and devoted much of his energy to treating the poor, free of charge. He died of tuberculosis in 1904.  

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      Ladies and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov

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      Volume 6

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      Published by Sovereign

      This edition first published in 2017

      Copyright © 2017 Sovereign

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      ISBN: 9781787243613

      Contents

      AN INADVERTENCE

      A TRIPPING TONGUE

      NOTES

      BOOTS

      IN AN HOTEL

      LADIES

      AN INADVERTENCE

      PYOTR PETROVITCH STRIZHIN, the nephew of Madame Ivanov, the colonel’s widow — the man whose new goloshes were stolen last year, — came home from a christening party at two o’clock in the morning. To avoid waking the household he took off his things in the lobby, made his way on tiptoe to his room, holding his breath, and began getting ready for bed without lighting a candle.

      Strizhin leads a sober and regular life. He has a sanctimonious expression of face, he reads nothing but religious and edifying books, but at the christening party, in his delight that Lyubov Spiridonovna had passed through her confinement successfully, he had permitted himself to drink four glasses of vodka and a glass of wine, the taste of which suggested something midway between vinegar and castor oil. Spirituous liquors are like sea-water and glory: the more you imbibe of them the greater your thirst. And now as he undressed, Strizhin was aware of an overwhelming craving for drink.

      I believe Dashenka has some vodka in the cupboard in the right-hand corner, he thought. If I drink one wine-glassful, she won’t notice it.

      After some hesitation, overcoming his fears, Strizhin went to the cupboard. Cautiously opening the door he felt in the right-hand corner for a bottle and poured out a wine-glassful, put the bottle back in its place, then, making the sign of the cross, drank it off. And immediately something like a miracle took place. Strizhin was flung back from the cupboard to the chest with fearful force like a bomb. There were flashes before his eyes, he felt as though he could not breathe, and all over his body he had a sensation as

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