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No. 40 – Not Wanted
A brief story about a gloomy bureaucrat, Zaikin, whose wife is fun-loving and gay and possibly having affairs. The setting is a summer resort. Zaikin can only visit a couple nights a week–he doesn’t have enough money to commute to his summer home every day–but his wife has settled in for the season. This tale…
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No. 67 – Verotchka
After a long stay as a guest at a house in the country, a statistician is taken aback when the daughter of the household tells him she has fallen in love with him.
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No. 70 – The Post
A pesky student hitches a ride with an irritated postman.
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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. 73 – Bad Weather
An errant husband fools his credulous wife and mother-in-law with an obvious lie.
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No. 75 – A Father
A drunken father receives far better treatment from his diligent son than he deserves.
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No. 77 – The Old House
A poor family falls to ruin in what seems to be a cursed apartment building.
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No. 80 – The Pipe
A bailiff and a shepherd worry that the natural world is being despoiled.
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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. 118 – Typhus
A man recovers from typhus only to learn that he has infected his beloved sister.
A Chekhov Circus
A guide to the short stories of Anton Chekhov
A Chekhov Circus 