The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (Illustrated)
• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.
• In ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’ a man and a woman indulge in an affair that could ruin both their marriages, but their feelings for each other compel them towards betrayal. ‘Peasants’ focuses on the brutality of peasant life, where the locus of evil is the tavern in which the men spend the last of their meagre earnings on vodka and go home drunk to beat their wives. And in ‘My Life’ Misail rejects the life of a gentleman to become a labourer despite his father’s protestations and threats to disown him.
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The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (Illustrated)
• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.
• In ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’ a man and a woman indulge in an affair that could ruin both their marriages, but their feelings for each other compel them towards betrayal. ‘Peasants’ focuses on the brutality of peasant life, where the locus of evil is the tavern in which the men spend the last of their meagre earnings on vodka and go home drunk to beat their wives. And in ‘My Life’ Misail rejects the life of a gentleman to become a labourer despite his father’s protestations and threats to disown him.
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The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (Illustrated)

The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (Illustrated)

The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (Illustrated)

The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (Illustrated)

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Overview

• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.
• In ‘The Lady with the Little Dog’ a man and a woman indulge in an affair that could ruin both their marriages, but their feelings for each other compel them towards betrayal. ‘Peasants’ focuses on the brutality of peasant life, where the locus of evil is the tavern in which the men spend the last of their meagre earnings on vodka and go home drunk to beat their wives. And in ‘My Life’ Misail rejects the life of a gentleman to become a labourer despite his father’s protestations and threats to disown him.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940015412581
Publisher: Five Star Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 09/08/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

About The Author

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian author of plays and short stories. Although Chekhov became a physician and once considered medicine his primary career, he gained fame and esteem through writing, ultimately producing a number of well-known plays, including The Seagull and Uncle Vanya, and a large body of innovative short stories that influenced the evolution of the form.

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