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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...

The Duel and Other StoriesAnton Pavlovich Chekhov The Duel and Other Stories THE DUEL IIt was eight o'clock in the morning – the time when the officers, the local officials, and the visitors usually took their morning dip in the sea after the hot, stifling night, and then went into the pavilion t...

The Witch, and Other StoriesAnton Pavlovich Chekhov The Witch, and Other Stories THE WITCH IT was approaching nightfall. The sexton, Savely Gykin, was lying in his huge bed in the hut adjoining the church. He was not asleep, though it was his habit to go to sleep at the same time as the hens. His...

The Horse-Stealers and Other StoriesAnton Pavlovich Chekhov The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories THE HORSE-STEALERS A HOSPITAL assistant, called Yergunov, an empty-headed fellow, known throughout the district as a great braggart and drunkard, was returning one evening in Christmas week from the h...