A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's "Lady with the Pet Dog"

A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's
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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages : 28
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ISBN-10 : 9781410350640
ISBN-13 : 1410350649
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's "Lady with the Pet Dog" by : Gale, Cengage Learning

A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's "Lady with the Pet Dog," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

The Portable Chekhov

The Portable Chekhov
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 641
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ISBN-10 : 9780140150353
ISBN-13 : 0140150358
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Portable Chekhov by : Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is accounted the single most important influence on the development of the modern short story. Edited and with an introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, The Portable Chekhov presents twenty-eight of Chekhov’s best stories, chosen as particularly representative of his many-sided portrayal of the human comedy—including “The Kiss,” “The Darling,” and “In the Ravine”—as well as two complete plays; The Boor, an example of Chekhov’s earlier dramatic work, and The Cherry Orchard, his last and finest play. In addition, this volume includes a selection of letters, candidly revealing of Chekhov’s impassioned convictions on life and art, his high aspirations, his marriage, and his omnipresent compassion.

Anton Chekhov's Short Stories

Anton Chekhov's Short Stories
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Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 0393090027
ISBN-13 : 9780393090024
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Anton Chekhov's Short Stories by : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov s creative career."

A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's "Darling"

A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's
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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages : 34
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ISBN-10 : 9781410343703
ISBN-13 : 1410343707
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's "Darling" by : Gale, Cengage Learning

A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's "Darling," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

The Bishop and Other Stories

The Bishop and Other Stories
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9798634775630
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Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bishop and Other Stories by : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

THE evening service was being celebrated on the eve of Palm Sunday in the Old Petrovsky Convent. When they began distributing the palm it was close upon ten o'clock, the candles were burning dimly, the wicks wanted snuffing; it was all in a sort of mist. In the twilight of the church the crowd seemed heaving like the sea, and to Bishop Pyotr, who had been unwell for the last three days, it seemed that all the faces-old and young, men's and women's-were alike, that everyone who came up for the palm had the same expression in his eyes. In the mist he could not see the doors; the crowd kept moving and looked as though there were no end to it. The female choir was singing, a nun was reading the prayers for the day.How stifling, how hot it was! How long the service went on! Bishop Pyotr was tired. His breathing was laboured and rapid, his throat was parched, his shoulders ached with weariness, his legs were trembling. And it disturbed him unpleasantly when a religious maniac uttered occasional shrieks in the gallery. And then all of a sudden, as though in a dream or delirium, it seemed to the bishop as though his own mother Marya Timofyevna, whom he had not seen for nine years, or some old woman just like his mother, came up to him out of the crowd, and, after taking a palm branch from him, walked away looking at him all the while good-humouredly with a kind, joyful smile until she was lost in the crowd. And for some reason tears flowed down his face. There was peace in his heart, everything was well, yet he kept gazing fixedly towards the left choir, where the prayers were being read, where in the dusk of evening you could not recognize anyone, and-wept. Tears glistened on his face and on his beard. Here someone close at hand was weeping, then someone else farther away, then others and still others, and little by little the church was filled with soft weeping. And a little later, within five minutes, the nuns' choir was singing; no one was weeping and everything was as before.

A Painful Case

A Painful Case
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 19
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ISBN-10 : 9781443440134
ISBN-13 : 1443440132
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis A Painful Case by : James Joyce

Mr. Duffy is a bank cashier and recluse living in Dublin, who purposely avoids contact with other people—until he meets Mrs. Sinico at a concert. While Mr. Sinico believes their relationship to be purely platonic, Mrs. Sinico indicates otherwise. Critically acclaimed author James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of short stories depicting middle-class life in Dublin in the early twentieth century. First published in 1914, the stories draw on themes relevant to the time such as nationalism and Ireland’s national identity, and cement Joyce’s reputation for brutally honest and revealing depictions of everyday Irish life. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters"

A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's
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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages : 35
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ISBN-10 : 9781410360502
ISBN-13 : 1410360504
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" by : Gale, Cengage Learning

A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

The Lair of the White Worm

The Lair of the White Worm
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Publisher : Jovian Press
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9781537811185
ISBN-13 : 1537811185
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lair of the White Worm by : Bram Stoker

In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and which receives strange commands along its string; and all the while, the great white worm slithers below, seeking its next victim...

The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip
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Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : UCLA:31158004896394
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Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Tulip by : Alexandre Dumas

The Bear

The Bear
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 27
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ISBN-10 : 9781443423205
ISBN-13 : 1443423203
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bear by : William Faulkner

Isaac McCaslin is obsessed with hunting down Old Ben, a mythical bear that wreaks havoc on the forest. After this feat is accomplished, Isaac struggles with his relationship to nature and to the land, which is complicated when he inherits a large plantation in Yoknapatawapha County. “The Bear” is included in William Faulkner’s novel, Go Down, Moses. Although primarily known for his novels, Faulkner wrote in a variety of formats, including plays, poetry, essays, screenplays, and short stories, many of which are highly acclaimed and anthologized. Like his novels, many of Faulkner’s short stories are set in fictional Yoknapatawapha County, a setting inspired by Lafayette County, where Faulkner spent most of his life. His first short story collection, These 13 (1931), includes many of his most frequently anthologized stories, including "A Rose for Emily", "Red Leaves" and "That Evening Sun." HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.