Ivanov
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Anton ChekhovЖанр:
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2026-10-31Язык книги:
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The titular Ivanov is a landowner who once loved life, but is now deeply depressed and listless. His wife Anna Petrovna is a Jewish woman who was disinherited by her parents after joining the Russian Church to marry him. She’s dying of tuberculosis, and her doctor, Yevgeny Konstantinovitch Lvov, begs Ivanov to take her to Crimea to help her recover. When Ivanov refuses, Lvov begins to believe that Ivanov is a horrible man—and wants to expose him so that everyone else thinks so, too.
Meanwhile, Ivanov is deeply in debt to the wife of his good friend, the District Chairman Pavel Kirillitch Lebedyev. Despite this, Ivanov continues...
Short Fiction
Автор:
Anton ChekhovДата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
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778
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Anton Chekhov is widely considered to be one of the greatest short story writers in history. A physician by day, he’s famously quoted as saying, “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.” Chekhov wrote nearly 300 short stories in his long writing career; while at first he wrote mainly to make a profit, as his interest in writing—and his skill—grew, he wrote stories that heavily influenced the modern development of the form.
His stories are famous for, among other things, their ambiguous morality and their often inconclusive nature. Chekhov was a firm believer that the role of the artist was to correctly pose a question, but not necessarily to answer...
The Cherry Orchard
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Anton ChekhovЖанр:
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2025-09-25Язык книги:
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19
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The Cherry Orchard is Chekhov’s final play. The plot revolves around a heavily indebted landowner, Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevsky, and her brother, Leonid Andreyevitch Gaev, as they attempt to save their estate, and its large cherry orchard, from being auctioned off to pay the mortgage. Lopahin, a wealthy merchant who’s uncomfortable with his lower-class background, accompanies them, suggesting grand business plans to revive the estate. Lyubov Andreyevna’s daughters, Anya and Varya, work to keep things stable, while Lyubov Andreyevna’s oddball employees and other locals are caught up in their own personal concerns.
The Cherry Orchard was written in 1903...
The Complete Short Novels
Автор:
Anton ChekhovЖанр:
Старинная литература: Прочее;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-16Язык книги:
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152
The Duel
Автор:
Anton ChekhovЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Дата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
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40
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The Duel is one of Chekhov’s longest works, skirting the edge between novel and novella. Like many of Chekhov’s works, it was first published as a serial.
Laevsky is a womanizing drunkard, a slave to life’s vices. His wantonness clashes with the moralistic zoologist Von Koren, who grows to despise Laevsky. Their mutual enmity culminates in a duel—though neither they, nor their friends, really want it to...
The Seagull
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Anton ChekhovЖанр:
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2025-10-13Язык книги:
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20
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A fading actress, Madame Irina Nikolayevna Arkadin, visits her brother’s country estate, where her son, Konstantin Gavrilovitch Treplev, stages an avant-garde play in an attempt to realize his artistic ambitions. The play stars the woman he’s in love with, Nina Mihailovna Zaretchny, an aspiring actress with restrictive parents. Meanwhile, Masha, the daughter of the estate manager, pines for Treplev, while a local schoolteacher, Medvedenko, pines for Masha. Trigorin, a novelist, accompanies Madame Arkadin, but then attracts Nina’s attention.
Some characters desire love, some desire artistic success, and some desire both—but over the course of the play, they’ll discover that happiness can be difficult to find.
The...
Three Sisters
Автор:
Anton ChekhovЖанр:
Драматургия;Дата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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22
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The sisters Olga, Masha, and Irina live with their brother Andrey in a provincial Russian town, and plan to return to Moscow, where they grew up, as soon as they’re able. Olga doesn’t want to continue working at the school where she’s a teacher and occasional headmaster; Masha is disillusioned in her marriage; Irina hopes to find her true love; and Andrey shows promise of becoming a professor. Also stationed in their town is a battery of soldiers that provide them with a social life. When Andrey falls in love with Natasha, their hopes for change are dashed, bit by bit.
First performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre, Three Sisters is considered one of ...
Uncle Vanya
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Anton ChekhovЖанр:
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2025-10-04Язык книги:
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18
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Alexandr Valdimirovitch Serebryakov, an elderly professor, and his beautiful and much younger wife, Yelena Andreyevna, return from the city to their country estate, which once belonged to Serebryakov’s late first wife. The estate is managed by Serebryakov’s daughter, Sonya, and his brother-in-law, Ivan Petrovitch Voynitsky (the titular “Uncle Vanya”). Voynitsky’s friend, the country doctor Mihail Lvovitch Astrov, goes to and from the estate, and is bored with his life. Sonya has feelings for Astrov, while both Astrov and Voynitsky compete for the affections of Yelena.
Voynitsky, nearing middle age, feels life has passed him by, and deeply resents Serebryakov, believing that the management of the estate has thwarted his ambitions...
