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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: €16.99

Digital: €4.99

Original publication
1903
Monolingual
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

小さな白い犬を連れた婦人。黒海に面したヤルタで、金髪の若い女性が毎日、小さな白い犬を連れて散歩している。名前を知る者はなく、人々は彼女を「犬を連れた奥さん」と呼ぶ。モスクワから来た妻帯者のグーロフは、彼女と話してみたくなる。

The world of the book

1900年ごろのロシア。この四つの短編は、誰もが顔見知りで毎日が似通った小さな地方都市へと私たちを連れていく。病院、教会、盛大な復活祭の祝いが見える。黒海沿岸の町ヤルタも見えるが、そこはモスクワの裕福な家族が休養に訪れる場所だ。

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