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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian playwright, writer, and doctor. Known best for his plays, he had also written a great multitude of short stories for and about people of all ages and all walks of life. Life as It Happens is a selection of just such stories and novellas. From sad to ridiculous, to dramatic, to funny, by way of tragic or bittersweet - there is something here for everyone.

Years before his marriage to Olga Knipper and his self-imposed medical exile to Yalta, years before he even began writing the seminal works of dramatic literature for which he is renowned, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, to support his financially and physically struggling family, wrote stories...many, many stories. Starting in his early 20s, living in Moscow, he made a name for himself by capturing the peculiarities of Russian life through satire, humor, pathos, and passion. Myriad influences inspired his eventual words for the stage.

On a hot summer day two carpenters, Gerasim and Lyubim, sit in a pond, floundering about in the water under a willow tree, beside the unfinished bathing shed they were supposed to be working on. Blue from cold and wrangling, they struggle to drag a large eelpout by the gills, from under the root....

Yegor the huntsman, walking down a country road, accidentally meets his estranged wife, Pelageya, whom he's been married to for 12 years but visited just several times, and even then, drunk and violent. She weeps and, fawning before him, implores him to visit her more often. He tries to explain why he, the best sportsman around, 'a pampered man', enjoying good tea and 'refined conversation', could not bear to live in a village.

A local investigating magistrate unsuccessfully tries to explain that it is wrong to take nuts off the railroad track to a peasant, Grigoryev, who simply cannot see why he's to be deprived of his right to use an iron nut as a weight for his fishing line.

Would you go into voluntary solitary confinement for 15 years in order to get rich? And more importantly, what would happen to you in the end? Our protagonist, the banker, agrees to pay millions to a young lawyer who believes he can stay locked up for 15 years in exchange for a multimillion reward. The bet does go ahead, but what it leads to both surprises and frightens the banker. Read in English, unabridged.

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.

Skuchnaya istoriya - povest' Antona Pavlovicha Chekhova, napisannaya v 1889 godu. Vpervye ona byla opublikovana v zhurnale "Severnyj vestnik". Povestvovanie vedetsya ot pervogo lica glavnym geroem proizvedeniya, zasluzhennym professorom Nikolaem Stepanovichem, izvestnejshim chelovekom. On neizlechimo bolen i po sobstvennym prognozam zhit' emu ostalos' ne bol'she polugoda. Nikolaj Stepanovich razmyshlyaet o svoej sud'be, volej kotoroj on obrechen na smert', pytaetsya ponyat' sebya, opisyvaya obychnoe techenie svoej zhizni.

Po syuzhetu povesti dyadya vezyot svoego maloletnego plemyannika v gimnaziyu. Ih soprovozhdaet dobryj, no praktichnyj nastoyatel' mestnoj cerkvi. Plemyannik Egorushka grusten ottogo, chto pokinul rodnoj dom. Po doroge on vstrechaet mnogo novyh lyudej, vklyuchaya krasivuyu grafinyu Dranickuyu, obozchikov, semejstvo unizhennyh evreev, bogatogo kupca Varlamova. Avtor uvlechyonno opisyvaet stepnye pejzazhi.

34-letnij moskvich Laptev, vypusknik filologicheskogo fakul'teta i syn surovogo kupca-millionshchika, priezzhaet v provinciyu, chtoby podderzhat' bol'nuyu sestru. Zdes' on znakomitsya s doktorskoj docher'yu YUliej Sergeevnoj. Vnezapno vspyhnuvshaya nerazdelennaya strast', nelovkoe predlozhenie ruki i serdca, pospeshnyj otkaz, a bolee vsego, posledovavshee za nim uzhe neskol'ko dvusmyslennoe soglasie, dayut nachalo cepochke sobytij, kotorye za kakih-to tri goda proizvedut v zhizni Lapteva i ego blizkih radikal'nye peremeny.

"El contrabajo", "Los banos publicos", "La dama del perrito", "Borrachera contínua", "El vengador", "El marido", "La suerte femenina". Anton Chejov, hijo de un tendero fracasado y nieto de un siervo, comenzo a escribir historias humoristicas como medio de sostenerse y continuar sus estudios medicos.

Chekhov's masterful last play, The Cherry Orchard, is a work of timeless, bittersweet beauty about the fading fortunes of an aristocratic Russian family and their struggle to maintain their status in a changing world. Alternately touching and farcical, this subtle, intelligent play stars the incomparable Marsha Mason.

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

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

Uncle Vanya is Anton Chekhov's 1902 tragicomedy focusing on the romantic entanglements of the residents of a declining country estate. Vanya loves Helena, the unhappily married wife of aged professor Serebrakoff. Sonia loves Dr. Astroff, but he's more interested in Helena. Serebrakoff loves only himself and is idealized by Vanya's mother, who believes him to be a genius.

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

"The Bet" is one of Chekov's most anthologized stories. A rich banker makes a bet with a poor artist that he cannot voluntarily stay imprisoned for a long period of time. The result of the bet is quite different than either man could have supposed.

The Three Sisters is Anton Chekhov's 1901 play about the Prosorov family, who are stuck in a provincial Russian town. The sisters - Olga, Masha, and Irina - fantasize about one day returning to Moscow. Meanwhile, their brother Andrey courts village girl Natasha, and the family socializes with the soldiers stationed nearby. Dreams, longing, and illicit love drive the action of Chekhov's comic drama.

Here are 11 short stories and one novella by Anton Chekhov, one of the finest masters of what is acknowledged as a difficult genre. There is the richly comic "Oh! The Public" about a hassled ticket inspector, a wry look at morals and manners in "The Chorus Girl", and the melancholic tale of a cab driver in "Misery".

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