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Taras Bulba, and Other TalesNikolai Vasilevich Gogol Taras Bulba, and Other Tales INTRODUCTION Russian literature, so full of enigmas, contains no greater creative mystery than Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol (1809-1852), who has done for the Russian novel and Russian prose what Pushkin has done for Ru...

Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second SeriesAnton Pavlovich Chekhov Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series INTRODUCTION The last few years have seen a large and generally unsystematic mass of translations from the Russian flung at the heads and hearts of English readers. The ready acceptance of Chekhov h...

Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and FriendsAnton Pavlovich Chekhov Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends TRANSLATOR’S NOTE Of the eighteen hundred and ninety letters published by Chekhov’s family I have chosen for translation these letters and passages from letters which best ...

Ein Heiratsantrag: Scherz in einem AufzugAnton Pavlovich Chekhov Ein Heiratsantrag: Scherz in einem Aufzug Personen Stepán Stepánowitsch Tschubúkow, Gutsbesitzer.Natália Stepánowna, seine Tochter. (25 Jahre alt.)Iwán Wassíljitsch Lómow, Tschubukows Nachbar.Ort der Handlung: Tschubukows Landsitz i...

Der Bär: Groteske in einem AufzugAnton Pavlovich Chekhov Der Bär: Groteske in einem Aufzug Personen Helene Iwánowna Pópow, eine junge Witwe, Gutsbesitzerin.Grigórji Stepánowitsch Smírnow, Gutsbesitzer.Luká, Diener bei Frau Popow.Ein Gärtner. Ein Kutscher. Mehrere Arbeiter.Ort der Handlung: Das Gu...

The SlandererAnton Pavlovich Chekhov The Slanderer / 1901 THE SLANDERER Sergey Kapitonlch Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave his daughter Natalya in marriage to the teacher of history and geography, Ivan Petrovich Loshadinikh. The wedding feast went on swimmingly. They sang, played, and ...

The Party and Other StoriesAnton Pavlovich Chekhov The Party and Other Stories THE PARTY I AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband's name-day was being celebrated, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talking incessa...

The Schoolmaster and Other StoriesAnton Pavlovich Chekhov The Schoolmaster and Other Stories THE SCHOOLMASTER FYODOR LUKITCH SYSOEV, the master of the factory school maintained at the expense of the firm of Kulikin, was getting ready for the annual dinner. Every year after the school examination ...

Love and Other StoriesAnton Pavlovich Chekhov Love and Other Stories LOVE "THREE o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking in at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy!"My whole being from head to heels is bursting with a strange, incom...

The Chorus Girl and Other StoriesAnton Pavlovich Chekhov The Chorus Girl and Other Stories THE CHORUS GIRL ONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerab...