Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories
by Anton Tschechow
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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 fair-haired young lady of medium height, wearing a beret; a white Pomeranian dog was running behind her. And afterwards he met her in the public gardens and in the square several times a day. She show more was walking alone, always wearing the same beret, and always with the same white dog; no one knew who she was, and every one called her simply the lady with the dog. show lessTags
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After reading lots and lots of all too often mediocre fantasy and science fiction I was ready for a change of pace, and this collection certainly provided that. The stories feature brilliant characterization, bringing us smart, well intentioned, and sympathetic people who all too frequently act irrationally and ultimately to their own detriment. Chekhov does a remarkable job of capturing the essence of a person's entire life in a brief tale. Like the author’s great plays, the mood is generally tragic, with moments of humor. Many of the stories focus on infidelity, and/or the fading of romantic, idealistic, unrealistic love. In some of the stories we see good people who fail to follow their convictions and eventually turn into show more something they once would have despised. The editor suggest that the underlying message, that we have a duty to fight evil actively, is intended as a refutation of ideals espoused by Tolstoy. My favorites were "A Boring Story (From an Old Man's Notebook)," "The Grasshopper," and "Ionyich," but any of them are well worth the brief amount of time required to read them. show less
Lovely. Gentle warm nostalgic ironic. all the best qualities one might associate with Chekhov. Intimate sense of its period yet does not seem dated. feel I have actually met a group of sad but rounded human beings.
I know the plays quite well and read some of the stories a while back without really getting them. This reading was a delight.Give me more
I know the plays quite well and read some of the stories a while back without really getting them. This reading was a delight.Give me more
Me ha sorprendido gratamente. Por el título no daba ni dos pesos, pero me he encontrado con un gigante de los cuentos, aparentemente. Simple pero profundo, cotidiano pero trascendental. Mis favoritos han sido «Iónich» y «La dama del perrito».
The first set of stories that I read by Mr. Chekov were better and deeper. The general themes of the stories seemed love intrigues between married people and lovers. While stimulating hardly cause for deep thinking. Reading these stories one realizes how little things change.
"Había corrido la especie de que en el malecón había aparecido un personaje nuevo: una dama con un perrito. Así comienza este relato, uno de los más conocidos e importantes de la literatura universal. Esta historia no cuenta ningún acontecimiento extraordinario; los protagonistas llevan una vida corriente, se podría decir que incluso aburrida. El relato es un pequeño ensayo sobre cómo surge el amor entre dos personas, Anna y Gúrov, y su pasión los transforma... ". (Descripción editorial).
I did not read the entire collection, only the title story.
A rather droll little story of an illicit love affair and the ease with which a person can find his life changed.
A rather droll little story of an illicit love affair and the ease with which a person can find his life changed.
One of the books that were on my literature list in the first two years of university. I liked it a lot :-) They certainly knew what books to pick so we wouldn't run away screaming :-)
Kept it for a long time, thinking I would eventually reread it. That never happened, so this book wil be set free soon.
Kept it for a long time, thinking I would eventually reread it. That never happened, so this book wil be set free soon.
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Author Information
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the provincial town of Taganrog, Ukraine, in 1860. In the mid-1880s, Chekhov became a physician, and shortly thereafter he began to write short stories. Chekhov started writing plays a few years later, mainly short comic sketches he called vaudvilles. The first collection of his humorous writings, Motley show more Stories, appeared in 1886, and his first play, Ivanov, was produced in Moscow the next year. In 1896, the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg performed his first full- length drama, The Seagull. Some of Chekhov's most successful plays include The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and Three Sisters. Chekhov brought believable but complex personalizations to his characters, while exploring the conflict between the landed gentry and the oppressed peasant classes. Chekhov voiced a need for serious, even revolutionary, action, and the social stresses he described prefigured the Communist Revolution in Russia by twenty years. He is considered one of Russia's greatest playwrights. Chekhov contracted tuberculosis in 1884, and was certain he would die an early death. In 1901, he married Olga Knipper, an actress who had played leading roles in several of his plays. Chekhov died in 1904, spending his final years in Yalta. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories
- Original publication date
- 1964 (English translation, Magarshack) (English translation, Magarshack); 1886-1903
- Related movies
- Dama s sobachkoy (1960 | IMDb)
- First words
- Grigory Petrov, a turner, who had long enjoyed a reputation as an excellent craftsman and at the same time as the most drunken ne'er-do-well in the whole Galchino district, was taking his wife to the rural district hosptial.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And it seemed to them that in only a few more minutes a solution would be found and a new, beautiful life would begin: but both of them knew very well that the end was still a long way away and that the most complicated and difficult part was only just beginning.
- Original language
- Russian
- Disambiguation notice*
- Die Erzählungen »Die Dame mit dem Hündchen«, »In der Osternacht«, »Die Simulanten«, »Aus dem Tagebuch des zweiten Buchhalters«, »Ein jähzorniger Mensch« und »Intrigen« wurden übersetzt von Alexander Eliasberg,... (show all) alle übrigen von Wladimir Czumikow.
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- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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- 891.733 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1800–1917
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- PZ3 .C3985 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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