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Ward No. 6 · The Lady with the Dog · The Bishop · The Betrothed

Anton Chekhov

Ward No. 6 · The Lady with the Dog · The Bishop · The Betrothed

Paper book: €24.99

Digital: €7.99

Original publication
1903
Bilingual edition
22 October 2026
Pages
305
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Psychology, Romance, Philosophy
Moods
Be moved to tears, Think it through, Understand myself
Translated from
Russian

Book summary

This collection brings together four of Chekhov's finest stories. In “Ward No. 6”, a provincial doctor starts talking with a patient in his asylum and ends up wondering who is really mad. In “The Lady with the Dog”, a man and a woman, each married to someone else, meet in Yalta and fall into a love they had not foreseen.

We also meet a bishop, alone and ill on the eve of Easter, and a young bride-to-be who decides to leave everything behind. Chekhov never judges: in a few pages, he makes you feel a whole life.

You can read each of these stories in one sitting in the language you are learning.

The plot

A lady and her little white dog. At Yalta, on the Black Sea, a young blonde woman walks every day with a little white dog. No one knows her name; people call her “the lady with the little dog.” Gurov, a married man…

The world of the book

Russia around 1900. These four stories take us to small provincial towns, where everyone knows everyone and the days all look alike. We see their hospital, their church and their great Easter celebrations. We also see…

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