2. Stories

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• "In Autumn" (1883), by Anton Chekhov

  17 January by Anton Chekhov

  On a stormy evening Tikhon’s tavern is crowded with coachmen and pilgrims, and a forty-year-old man in shoddy clothes at the bar is ceaselessly begging for a glass of vodka, eventually proposing his worn-out coat in exchange. Tikhon contemptuously refuses to give him any more vodka until a (...)

• "The Sinner from Toledo" (1881) - a denunciation of religious extremism by Anton Chekhov

  17 October 2021 by Anton Chekhov

  A moral fable with a sharp edge to it recounting the fate of Maria Spalanzo, who had the misfortune to cross the path of a monk in Barcelona in bygone days looking particularly lovely in the evening moonlight and thereby arousing the deadly wrath of the fanatically misogynous priest and the (...)

• "A Living Calendar" and other stories by Anton Chekhov

  27 September 2021 by Anton Chekhov

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  1. A LIVING CALENDAR (1885) An elderly official is discussing with a friend about how things used to be more lively in their town, citing memorable occasions from the past. He needs reminders from his wife as to exactly when each of these four events had taken place, and (...)

• "An Enigmatic Nature" and other stories by Anton Chekhov

  1 January 2021 by Anton Chekhov

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  1. AN ENIGMATIC NATURE (1883) A very pretty young lady in a first-class railway car is baring her soul to a budding author who is all too anxious to proffer his psychological expertise on problems of the heart, but the explanation by the lovely lady of her current romantic (...)

• "The Black Monk" and other stories by Anton Chekhov

  4 December 2020 by Anton Chekhov

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  1. CHORISTERS (1884) The sacristan of a village church has been intensely rehearsing a complex choral with the school’s choir in preparation for the forthcoming visit of a Petersburg dignitary, in spite of the vocal inadequacies of the singers and the hostility of the church (...)