The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
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Tags: Classics, Russian, Short Stories
ISBN:1425055230
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Here is a collection of stories from one of the most famous Russian authors of all time, Anton Chekhov. "The Black Monk," "Volodya", and "An Anonymous Story" all display Chekhov’s brilliance, but it is his 1899 story "The Lady with the Dog" that is the centerpiece of this collection. Banker and bourgeois family man Dmitriy Gurov has a roving eye and is always on the lookout for his next conquest. On holiday one year, he meets a young woman, Anna Sergeyevna, who likes to wander the shore with her pet dog. Anna is married, but her husband has not accompanied her on holiday. Taking a chance on the attraction they feel for one another, she and Dmitriy embark on a passionate affair. Once home, Dmitriy assumes that Anna will become just another entry on his long list of past mistresses. However, there is something about Anna that keeps her memory alive in Dmitriy’s mind, so much so that he resolves to find her again. A real romantic page-turner, "The Lady with the Dog" is a tale of physical passion strong enough to dramatically change the course of two people’s lives.
Contents
The Lady with the Dog
A Doctor’s Visit
An Upheaval
Ionitch
The Head of the Family
The Black Monk
Volodya
An Anonymous Story
The Husband
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IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verney's pavilion, he saw, walking on the sea-front, a ...
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