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No. 17 – Dreams
This is a sad, beautiful snapshot of a poor man who, though broken, impoverished and in ill health, still clings to dreams of a simple life in nature. The dreams of the story title are those of a nameless tramp who is being escorted to a town center by two “peasant constables.” The tramp, like…
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No. 87 – Darkness
A poor man begs a government doctor to help free his brother from jail.
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No. 93 – A Malefactor
A poor man stands trial for removing hardware from the railroad tracks, an act he can’t see as a crime.
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No. 133 – The Head-Gardener’s Story
A saintly doctor is murdered, but no one can believe that anyone could actually kill so good a man.
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No. 36 – In Exile
This is a perfectly horrible, extremely well-wrought story. A young Tatar has been banished to the steppe. There he meets old Semyon, who has been eking out a living in exile for years, and whose philosophy of life is that it is better to be miserable, because you’ll get used to it. If you grow…
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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. 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. 119 – The Horse-Stealers
A traveler is forced off the road in a snowstorm and finds himself in the company of a highly untrustworthy group.
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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. 201 – The Swedish Match
A man disappears and a detective must solve the mystery.
A Chekhov Circus
A guide to the short stories of Anton Chekhov
A Chekhov Circus 