THE DARLING
Olenka, the daughter of the retired collegiate
assessor, Plemyanniakov, was sitting in her back porch,
lost in thought. It was hot, the flies were persistent
and teasing, and it was ...
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The Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) is among the major short-story writers and dramatists of modern times.During the last half of the 19th century the old order in Russia was crumbl...
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Anton Chekhov is today one of the most widely known authors of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Appreciated not only in Russia and the West but also in Asia, he was a master of the short story, ...
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