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Short Stories

By: Anton Chekhov
Narrated by: Vjacheslav Buharov
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This audiobook is in Russian with music by Al Belonosov.

These are short stories of one of the greatest writers in the world, Anton Chekhov. For more than 100 years, his humor and philosophy have surprised readers by their depth and brightness. These stories are for Russia and Russians, as much today as they were 100 years ago.

The stories included in this collection are:

  • The Letter to the Learned Neighbour
  • The Wife of a Chemist
  • In the Bath-house
  • In Moskow, at the Trubnaya Square
  • Vanka
  • The Day in the Countryside
  • Children
  • Lively Chronology
  • Someone Who Lost His Way
  • Wicked Boy
  • Malefactor
  • Familiar Man
  • Ivan Matveevitch
  • The Memories of the Idealistic Man
  • Delaying the Time
  • Cook Gets Married
  • Horse's Surname
  • At the Mill
  • The Burbot
  • The Beggar
  • Overdid
  • Polinka
  • The Simulator
  • The Death of the Official
  • Lucky
  • The Slime
  • The Boredom
  • The Officer Prishebeev
  • A Chameleon
  • The Surgery
  • A Girl from Chorus
  • The Joke
©2004 Audio Publisher UTA-N Classics Language Learning
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Some better known ones (although some of the best are not included) and some lesser known ones. Chekhov write around 500 such pieces and there are about thirty to forty of them here, so it's only a cross section but it seems to be a fairly representative cross section.

Nicely read but the background music that appears here and there for no obvious reason does detract and I have to take one point off the performance for that although I suppose it's not the narrator's fault.

An enjoyable anthology of Chekhov short stories

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