Short Stories
epub |eng | 2017-01-07 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton; Helwig, David; Seth]

The next year I went to see him. Travel there, think, observe how things are going on. In his letters my brother called his estate The Chumbaroklov Wasteland, now Himalaiskoe. ...
( Category: Short Stories February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-07 | Author:Anton Chekhov

THE GRATEFUL GERMAN IONCE KNEW A GRATEFUL GERMAN. The first time I met him was in Frankfurt-am-Main. He was walking along Dummstrasse with a monkey on a leash. One could ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-16 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

( Category: Regional & Cultural February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:Anton Chekhov

THE VAUDEVILLIAN Ivan Akimovich Sparrov-Falkonov, a vaudevillian, thrust his hands into the pockets of his wide trousers, turned to face the window, and fixed his languid eyes on the house ...
( Category: Short Stories February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-07 | Author:Anton Chekhov

Act Two The setting is the same as in Act One. It is eight o’clock in the evening. The barely audible strains of an accordion come from outside. The stage ...
( Category: Short Stories February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Anton Chekhov

6. One Sunday Dr. Blagovo turned up unexpectedly. He was wearing a military tunic over a silk shirt and high boots of patent leather. “I have come to see you,” ...
( Category: Short Stories February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Anton Chekhov

“Goosie, goosie, goosie!” called Olya, reaching toward a gosling. The gosling was wise beyond his years. He dodged Olya and ran to his sire, a very large and stupid gander, ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
epub, azw3 | | 2012-07-10 | Author:Dostoevsky, Fyodor

“Why, you—” “What?” “Why, you—you’re speaking as though you were reading from a book,” she said, and something that sounded like irony could suddenly be heard in her voice. I ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

About the Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer and essayist whose literary works explored human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual context of nineteenth-century ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-01 | Author:Dostoevsky, Fyodor & Alan Myers & W. J. Leatherbarrow [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

MORNING MY nights ended with the morning. It was a nasty day. Rain was falling and beat dismally against my window panes; it was dark in my little room and ...
( Category: Short Stories February 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1987-12-31 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

MAKAR DEVUSHKIN September 30 Makar Alekseyevich, my precious friend! It is all done! My lot is cast; I have no knowledge of what it is to be, but I am ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

CHAPTER 9 At the top of the steps of the hotel’s wide porch, carried up the stairs in a chair and surrounded by footmen, maidservants and numerous obsequious hotel staff, ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Chapter Four THE day on which was celebrated the festival of the birth of Clara Olsufyevna, only daughter of State Councillor Berendeyev, at one rime Mr Golyadkin’s patron – the ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers February 24,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-13 | Author:George Saunders

LX. Left behind on the roof of the white stone home, I resolved to make one final attempt to talk sense to the boy, who lay nearly insensate at my ...
( Category: Ghosts February 23,2017 )
epub |eng, eng | 2016-12-16 | Author:Jeanette Winterson

THE SECOND-BEST BED re there things that cannot be explained? And if there are, how do we explain them? My closest friend, Amy, left the city this summer to live ...
( Category: Short Stories February 23,2017 )