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The collection of the great Russian writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) includes his stories.

La dame au petit chien promène son ennui et son chien sur la digue d'une station balnéaire de la mer Noire. Un homme solitaire la remarque, l'aime, mais ne peut triompher plus tard de toutes les barrières qui se dressent sur le chemin de leur bonheur. De toutes les nouvelles écrites par Tchekhov, "La dame au petit chien" est l'une des plus célèbres.

Dear Permission to be Powerful Reader…What if life isn’t rare? What if it’s common — and the loneliness we’ve all felt is just a temporary illusion, waiting to be shattered by new light? The exoplanet K2-18b might be where that light first breaks through. NASA’s James Webb Telescope just gave us our clearest hint yet that a planet beyond our solar system may host life-linked molecules.Specifically, dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), gases known on Earth to come only from living organisms. Below is the full breakdown — the evidence, the debate, the doubt, and...

A delightful anthology of great works by some of Europe's greatest short story writers....

Seit einem Unfall kann Amos Decker, der Memory Man, nichts mehr vergessen. Eine Eigenschaft, die ihn nach dem schrecklichen Mord an seiner Familie fast in den Wahnsinn getrieben hätte. Aber nun hat er ein neues Lebensziel gefunden: Innerhalb einer Spezialeinheit des FBI klärt er ungelöste Schwerverbrechen. In seinem ersten Fall geht es um Melvin Mars, einen ehemaligen Footballstar, der seit zwanzig Jahren in der Todeszelle sitzt.

Olga Ivanovna, a beautiful young woman floating around in a famous and fabulous social circle, falls in love with a simple man who does not belong to the same social group, Osip Dymov. Dymov worked at the same hospital as her father. When her father fell ill, Dymov was captivated by Olga's dedication to her father, and she soon returned the romantic notions. As they settled into married life, Olga continued to frequent with her artistic friends, visiting them every day and continuing to live a fun, exciting life.

Alexandra Belarus is a struggling artist living in New York City, even though her family is rich in real estate, including a towering Gothic Gramercy Park building built by her great-great-grandfather. But the truth of her bloodline is revealed when she is attacked on the street and saved by an inhumanly powerful winged figure. A figure who knows the Belarus name....

Sadness can be about so many things from places to people, from thoughts to actions. Our classic authors including Arnold Bennett, James Joyce, Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Ivan Turgenev and many others use their pens and stories to demonstrate the many ways this feeling can take a hold of lives and its consequences.

Dear Permission to be Powerful Reader,It didn’t happen overnight… The unthinkable catastrophe that left America in ruins was years in the making… Telegraphed by ominous warnings and willful ignorance. By 2025, cracks were already visible in the nation’s foundation. Geopolitical tensions were at a boiling point… Climate disasters hammering the coasts… And lunatics controlled the keys to power.Experts sounded the alarm: A 40% chance of a new world war by the 2030s1 Many warned, likely involving the United States, China, and other major powers.Some even cautioned we had entered a ...

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A piano tuner called Murkin, a close-shaven man with a yellow face, with a nose stained with snuff and cotton wool in his ears, came out of his hotel room into the passage. And looking at his frightened face one might have supposed that the ceiling had fallen in on him. 'Upon my word, Semyon!' he cried, seeing the attendant running towards him. 'What is the meaning of it? I am a rheumatic, delicate man and you make me go barefoot! Why is it you don't give me my boots all this time? Where are they?'

Many say that capital punishment is inhumane. But is it, in fact, more humane to take away life in one swift stroke, rather than condemn an individual to a lifetime in captivity? Two men place wagers, each backing a different side of the argument. After 15 years, this clumsy bet irrevocably changes their lives forever.

The Cherry Orchard (1903) is the final play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It is considered as one of four outstanding plays by Chekhov, along with The Seagull, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya. The narrative recounts an aristocratic landowner who returns to her family estate just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. It dramatizes the socio-economic developments in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, including the rise of the middle class after the abolition of serfdom and the waning power of the aristocracy.

The Cherry Orchard is Chekhov's final play, first performed in 1904 at the Moscow Art Theatre and directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. It takes place on the Ranevsky family's country estate, which boasts a large cherry orchard that is in bloom as the play opens. The family is gathering at the estate for a reunion but also to decide how to handle their debts, which have reached a crisis point.

From the sublime to the ridiculous, Anton Chekhov saw it all. And he wrote about it as only a master storyteller can, capturing not only the nuances of human behavior, but also the motivations behind the behavior. Often, too, he found universal truths along the way. These stories cover a variety of themes, both comic and tragic, as his characters encounter religion, government bureaucracy, and each other. And although they were written long ago, they are still surprisingly fresh.

V nebol'shom bol'nichnom fligele nahoditsya palata 6 dlya dushevnobol'nyh. V palate obitayut pyat' chelovek, sredi kotoryh durachok Moisejka i byvshij sudebnyj pristav Ivan Dmitrich Gromov. Posle opisaniya bol'nyh avtor znakomit nas s doktorom Andreem Efimychem Raginym. Kogda on vstupil v dolzhnost', bol'nica nahodilas' v uzhasnom sostoyanii. Strashnaya bednost', antisanitariya. Ragin otnyossya k ehtomu ravnodushno.

It's been 737 days since the Department of Extraordinary Affair's last vampire incursion, but that streak appears to have ended when a boat full of dead lawyers is found in the Hudson River. Using the power of psychometry - the ability to divine the history of an object by touching it - agent Simon Canderous discovers that the booze cruise was crashed by something that sucked all the blood out of the litigators. Now, his workday may never end - until his life does.

«Djadja Vanja» - odna iz samyh lirichnyh semejnyh istorij, «sceny iz derevenskoj zhizni», no lish' na pervyj vzgljad. Ljudi v nej reshajut voprosy smysla zhizni i smerti, ljubvi i nenavisti.

A selection of stories to entertain for when you have a spare 10 minutes, including "After the Race", by James Joyce; "Three Questions", by Leo Tolstoy; "The Child's Story", by Charles Dickens; and "A Transgression", by Anton Chekhov, read by Sir Michael Redgrave.

In the time of paranoia and religious fanaticism, one young woman's life falls into the hands of two very misguided men.