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The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
by Anton Chekhov, Ronald Wilks , Paul Debreczney
by Anton Chekhov, Ronald Wilks , Paul Debreczney
Catherine Mustread's review
bookshelves: fiction, short-stories, russia, classics, daily-lit, 1800s, translation
Nov 13, 10
bookshelves: fiction, short-stories, russia, classics, daily-lit, 1800s, translation
Read from August 29 to November 13, 2010
Chekhov is a master of the short story and I thoroughly enjoyed the DailyLit.Com version* of this classic which contained nine stories, the best known being the title story but my favorites being the two shortest, The Head of the Family about a man who alternates between being tyrannical and guilty and The Husband which has a great example of Chekhov's pithy character descriptions: "Among the husbands was Shalikov, the tax-collector--a narrow, spiteful soul, given to drink, with a big, closely cropped head, and thick, protruding lips." DailyLit is a great way to read short stories online and this makes the 28th book I have finished through DailyLit since I joined in 2009. Click here for my DailyLit profile.
*See Status Updates for more about each story. Contents of this version are:
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
*See Status Updates for more about each story. Contents of this version are:
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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Reading Progress
| 08/29/2010 | page 1 |
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0.0% | "Subscribed via DailyLit.com" |
| 08/29/2010 | page 2 |
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1.0% | "Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that every intimacy, which at first so agreeably diversifies life and appears a light and charming adventure, inevitably grows into a regular problem of extreme intricacy, and in the long run the situation becomes unbearable. But at every fresh meeting with an interesting woman this experience seemed to slip out of his memory." |
| 09/05/2010 |
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18.0% | "1) Title Story - Adulterous couple's love grows over the years of secrecy and deception "and it seemed as though in a little while the solution would be found, and then a new and splendid life would begin." 2) Doctor's Visit - Young heiress feels trapped and ill. Dr's advice: "There are lots of places a good, intelligent person can go to." Chekhov himself was a physician." | |
| 09/12/2010 |
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33.0% | "#3 An Upheaval - a young and inexperienced governess in a house where an expensive brooch has disappeared -- very short. #4 Ionitch is again about a Dr., who finds a young woman attractive, about how love and life can pass one by. Next is The Head of the Family, segment # 29 of 92." | |
| 09/19/2010 |
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50.0% | "Black Monk - A haunting story about Kovrin, an adopted son who returns to the home of his famous horticulturalist father who loves nothing more than his plants and is worried about what will happen after he's gone, remembers a legend about a Black Monk who will return after 1000 years. Genius is allied to madness. Segment 46 of 92 through DailyLit.com" | |
| 09/25/2010 |
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58.0% | "Velodya: Teenage boy's awkwardness around women, yet how they both tempt and repulse him. Impulsiveness can lead to ruin." 1 comment | |
| 10/21/2010 |
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85.0% | "'You imagined I was a hero, and that I had extraordinary ideas and ideals, and it turned out I am an ordinary official, and have no partiality for ideas of any sort. I am a worthy representative of the rotten world from which you have run away because you were revolted with its triviality and emptiness. Recognise it and be just: don't be indignant with me, but with yourself, as it is your mistake, and not mine.'" | |
| 11/12/2010 |
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97.0% | "Previous quote and story -- An Anonymous Story in which a footman goes into service for the son of his enemy in order to spy but is distracted by his dislike for the son and his love for the girlfriend. Last story -- The Husband -- coming up next." |
