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Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) deprecated turning a person into slave first, but later began to make higher demands to his characters and to blame not only their environment, but also themselves for losing their dignity. Chekhov used actively bright details and professional slang to create necessary...

"Joy" is a funny story by content and sad in itself. It was a great short story that focused on the very different responses to the indiscretion of the main hero. The main hero of the story Mitya with excited face bursted into a room of his parents, woke them up and cried that all Russia...

Anton Chekhhov (1860 – 1904) is one of the most famous dramatist. No one but Chekhov could understand tragedy of small things so finely and clear. His legacy includes the best works of the Russian flash fiction. An Enigmatic Nature is a story of two people talking in a railcar compartment. The author...

“A Happy Man” is a very funny and satiric story that tells us that happiness is easy and everything is in our hands. The action happens in the passenger train. One man tries to find his carriage, opening doors and saying “No, wrong again!” every time he misses. But suddenly he hears his name...

Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) is considered to be the last classic writer of the Golden Age of the Russian literature. Before Chekhov the literature had no way to analyze fleeting features of everyday and to give an overwhelming picture of life simultaneously. Grisha is a story of a boy taken for...

Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician, playwright and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. Often ambiguous, at times humorous, ironic, anecdotal, facetious, lyrical, apathetic, bizarre, passionate and tragic, Chekhov's works explore the entire range...

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was famous Russian physician, playwright and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised...

The story “After the Theatre” tells us about a sixteen years old girl Nadya Zelenina. She was loved by two men: a successful officer called Gorny and a student called Gruzdev. She decided to write a letter like Tatyana's from "Yevgeny Onegin”. After the opera she wanted to be doubtful of...

One morning there was a burial of the collegiate assessor, Kirill Ivanovitch Babilonov who died because of two diseases, that were the most common in the society: an angry wife and alcoholisms. When the funeral procession moved on from the church towards the cemetery, one of teammate of the dead man,...

The sky was totally covered with heavy clouds - it was a cold rainy day. Pavel Petrovitch Somov was annoyed by this weather. His room was dark and cold and the tears of rain on the window made him depressed. He was bored because he hadn't any entertainment or any affair. His wife was sitting at the...

A ROSE FROM HOMER'S GRAVE is a famous short story by Hans Christian Andersen. This story is generally considered one of the best Andersen's stories. The story narrates about a rose, which grows over Homer's grave. Once a nightingale falls in love with the rose but the rose won't blossom for it. That's...

Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (1871-1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the Tsarist government. Much of the novels...

Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev (1871-1919) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature. He was active between the revolution of 1905 and the Communist revolution which finally overthrew the Tsarist government. In this work, the...

Enoch Arnold Bennett was a remarkable English novelist and journalist, famous for such novels as The Old Wives' Tale, The Card and the Clayhanger trilogy. First published in 1911, Hilda Lessways, the second book of the Clayhanger series, tells the story of the Clayhanger novel from Hilda's point of...