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About Love is the musings of several friends about love and the great mystery surrounding it. After trying to figure out the love existing between an abusive, ugly cook and the lovely girl that doted on him, one of the men, Alehin, begins sharing his story of love and heartbreak. He recounts the tale of his love for the beautiful Anna Alexyevna, a young woman married to his friend. Alehin describes the way in which their relationship developed, returning again and again to the strange mysteries of love.

Miguev, a married, intelligent collegiate assessor, is haunted with anxiety and worry. Miguev has a secret that he doesn't want his wife, the town, or his colleagues to discover. His mistress, after becoming pregnant and having his child, has recently tried to extort money from him in exchange for her silence. She threatens to ruin his reputation and divulge his secret shame to everyone unless he pays her. In the height of his fear and worry about his present situation, his fears seem to come alive....

Anton Tchekhov (1860 - 1904) é leitura obrigatória não só para quem está ligado ao teatro ou à literatura mas para quem se interessa em observar o ser humano. Às vezes, muito divertido, às vezes, dramático, Tchekhov tece sua prosa com todos os fios da alma humana. Nela cabem toda a grandeza e toda a mesquinhez inerentes ao ser humano.

Zavtra utrom chtoby opjat' byl u menja! Skazhite emu, chto ja gluboko oskorblena ego nevezhlivym postupkom! I vy, babushka, skazhite! Nadejus', chto on budet u menja i ne zastavit posylat' za soboj. Podojdi sjuda, babushka! Na tebe, milaja! Chto, nebos', trudno upravljat'sja s takimi bol'shimi det'mi?

Tashhi ego, temno-zelenogo prohvosta! — zakrichali starichki i ponesli Ivana Nikiticha v zalu. V zale k starichkam prisoedinilis' kavalery i nachali podbrasyvat' pod samyj potolok bednogo gazetchika. Baryshni zahlopali v ladoshi, muzykanty zamolkli i polozhili svoi instrumenty, lakei, vzjatye shika radi iz kluba, zaudivljalis' «bezobraznosti» i preglupo zahihikali v svoi aristokraticheskie kulaki.

In stories like "A Night in the Cemetery," "Night of Horror," and "Murder," not only will Chekhov's dark humor and twisted crimes satisfy even the most hardboiled of mystery fans, but readers will again appreciate the penetrating, absurdist insight into the human condition that only Chekhov can bring. Whether it is the death of a young amateur playwright at the hands of an editor who hates bad writing, or a drunken civil servant who ends up trapped in a graveyard, these stories overflow with the unforgettable characters and unique sensibility that will forever make Chekhov one of the most fascinating figures in literature.

Orson Welles, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Michael Redgrave present a collection of classic Russian fiction including "The Overcoat", "The Queen of Spades", and "A Day in the Country."

This is a story from the In the Ravine and Other Stories collection.

With a new king in place, tensions are rising in London and across Europe. Shaken by the Great Depression and with talk of another war coming, the Buckingham Hotel is trying to regain some stability. Upstairs, Vivienne Edgerton is desperate to do something worthwhile with her time and her stepfather's money, rather than spending it on frivolity and debauchery—but will this land her in even more trouble?

Ivan Chervyakov, a petty government official, while in the theatre, sneezes right upon the head of a man sitting in front of him, who happens to be a high-ranking government official. He spends the evening and the next day fawning before his sneeze victim trying to extract forgiveness, but what he succeeds instead is only bringing out a fit of rage in him. Shocked, Chervyakov returns home to lie there and die, due to the sheer stress of having endured such horror. Read in English, unabridged.

Pravda, ee malen'koe koshach'e lichiko, s karimi glazami i s vzdernutym nosikom, svezho i dazhe pikantno, ee zhidkie volosy cherny, kak sazha, i kudrjavy, malen'koe telo graciozno, podvizhno i pravil'no, kak telo jelektricheskogo ugrja, no v obshhem... Vprochem, v storonu moj vkus. Grohol'skij, izbalovannyj zhenshhinami, ljubivshij i razljubivshij na svoem veku sotni raz, videl v nej krasavicu.

Detskij radiospektakl' po motivam povest' "Kashtanka" russkogo pisatelja Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Molodaja sobaka poterjala svoego hozjaina, stoljara Luku Aleksandrycha. Ona pytaetsja najti ego sled, no bezuspeshno. Glubokim vecherom, vybivshis' iz sil, Kashtanka zasypaet u dverej pod'ezda, gde ejo sluchajno nahodit nekij tainstvennyj neznakomec, vposledstvii okazavshijsja klounom. On laskaet zhivotnoe i provodit ego v cirk. Kashtanka poluchaet novuju klichku "Tjotka".

Ona dumala s dosadoj: ee rovesnicy, - a ej shel dvadcat' shestoj god, teper' hlopochut po hozjajstvu, utomilis' i krepko usnut, a zavtra utrom prosnutsja v prazdnichnom nastroenii; mnogie iz nih davno uzhe povyhodili zamuzh i imejut detej.

Osip Ivanovich Dymov, tituljarnyj sovetnik i vrach tridcati odnogo goda, sluzhit v dvuh bol'nicah odnovremenno: ordinatorom i prozektorom. S devjati chasov utra i do poludnja prinimaet bol'nyh, potom edet vskryvat' trupy. No ego dohodov edva hvataet na pokrytie rashodov zheny - Ol'gi Ivanovny, dvadcati dvuh let, pomeshannoj na talantah i znamenitostjah v hudozhestvennoj i artisticheskoj srede, kotoryh ona ezhednevno prinimaet v dome.

Vodevil' "Svad'ba" - sozdannyj po odnoimjonnoj p'ese Antona Pavlovicha Chehova, javljaetsja jazvitel'noj satiroj na obyvatel'skie nravy meshhan dorevoljucionnoj Rossii. Meshhane Zhigalovy, u kotoryh na vydan'e doch' Dasha, k uzhasu svoemu uznajut, chto chinovnik Aplombov, ezhednevno obedavshij u nih i zarekomendovavshij sebja zhenihom, zhenit'sja vovse ne sobiraetsja. S bol'shim trudom udalos' otcu Dashen'ki ugovorit' ambicioznogo zheniha sdelat' predlozhenie.

"Milostivye gosudaryni i milostivye gosudari" - radiopostanovka po jumoristicheskim rasskazam Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Za 26 let tvorchestva Chehov sozdal okolo 900 razlichnyh proizvedenij (korotkih jumoristicheskih rasskazov, ser'joznyh povestej, p'es), mnogie iz kotoryh stali klassikoj mirovoj literatury.

"Leshij" - komedija v 4 dejstvijah Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Napisana v 1889 godu. V "Leshem", kak i vo vseh proizvedenija Chehova nashli otrazhenie vse cherty nacional'nogo russkogo haraktera i priznak vremeni - utrata duhovnyh cennostej, sposobnost' k sochuvstviju, gotovnost' soperezhivat' gore i radost'.

"The Horse-Stealers" - a story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Written in 1890, first published in the magazine "New Time" No. 5061, April 1, 1890, signed Anton Chekhov.

The Made in Sweden podcast is the true story behind the novel The Father by Anton Svensson. This is an unforgettable, thrilling real-life story of how three brothers grew up to become Sweden’s most wanted criminals, as told by fourth brother Stefan Thunberg and crime journalist-turned-author Anders Roslund. There are 6 episodes released every Friday for 6 weeks. The Father is available to buy from iTunes as an ebook and digital audiobook. The hardback is available from all good bookstores. For details, go to www.thecrimevault.com/ebooks/made-in-sweden-the-father Hosted on Acast. See ...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. Human beings are, in the main, social animals, they like to gather, to herd together, to share experiences. But some do not. Either through choice or exclusion their way forward is difficult. In this volume our authors and their characters share their stories.