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No. 72 – A Bad Business
A church sexton stumbles across a menacing stranger in the graveyard.
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No. 111 – The Album
A rich man is touched when his staff at work present him with an album, but he is unconcerned the next day when his children rip it to pieces.
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No. 112 – An Inadvertence
Normally a sober man, Strizhin has a bit too much to drink at a party and then imbibes from the wrong bottle when he gets home.
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No. 114 – The Marshal’s Widow
The guests at a memorial service must sneak out for quick sips of vodka because the widow has banned drinking in her house.
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No. 115 – Overdoing It
A surveyor bound for a remote village becomes convinced that his cab driver is up to no good.
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No. 116 – In an Hotel
A mother of marriage-age daughters has nothing but disdain for a rough-mannered soldier until she learns that he is single and a gentleman.
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No. 124 – In the Dark
A man investigates some suspicious sounds in the house in the middle of the night.
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No. 166 – In the Court
A man accused of murder unknowingly fingers the man who may be the true culprit
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No. 170 – Oh, the Public!
A conductor is pilloried simply for doing his job.
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No. 174 – Drunk
A drunken bully bullies everyone around him, drunkenly.
A Chekhov Circus
A guide to the short stories of Anton Chekhov
A Chekhov Circus 