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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

Een dame en haar wit hondje. In Jalta, aan de Zwarte Zee, wandelt elke dag een jonge blonde vrouw met een wit hondje. Niemand kent haar naam; men noemt haar „de dame met het hondje”. Goerov, een getrouwde man uit…

The world of the book

Rusland rond 1900. Deze vier verhalen brengen ons naar kleine provinciesteden, waar iedereen elkaar kent en de dagen op elkaar lijken. We zien hun ziekenhuis, hun kerk en hun grote paasfeesten. We zien ook Jalta, een…

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