The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
Author | : Anton Chekhov |
Publisher | : eBookIt.com |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2013-06-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781456617677 |
ISBN-13 | : 1456617672 |
Rating | : 4/5 (672 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories written by Anton Chekhov and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-06-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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." "If she is here alone without a husband or friends, it wouldn't be amiss to make her acquaintance," Gurov reflected. He was under forty, but he had a daughter already twelve years old, and two sons at school. He had been married young, when he was a student in his second year, and by now his wife seemed half as old again as he...