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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

一位女士和她的小白狗。在黑海邊的雅爾達,一位金髮的年輕女子每天帶著一隻小白狗散步。沒有人知道她的名字,人們稱她為「帶小狗的女人」。古羅夫是一位從莫斯科來的已婚男子,很想和她說話。

The world of the book

1900年前後的俄國。這四篇小說帶我們走進外省的小城,那裡人人相識,日子都差不多。我們看到那裡的醫院、教堂和盛大的復活節。我們也看到了雅爾達,一座黑海邊的城市,莫斯科的富裕人家來這裡休養。

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