The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories, Classics, Literary

ISBN-13: 9781606647714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 180 str.

Anton Chekhov

Opis

While his restless wife watches, the chemist snores contentedly, smiling at his dream -- that the whole village has a cough and are buying his curative syrup Then she hears outside two shadowed figures, a doctor and an officer, talking between themselves . . . about the chemist with the oversized jaw of an ass and his ever-so-contrasting, so-fetching wife Then the doorbell rings. Soon the chemist's wife finds herself hosting a small midnight party, gazing upon their ruddy faces and listening to their chatter -- and soon she, too, grows quite lively. Oh, she feels so gay The dead weight pressing her down on this heavy summer night lifts completely . . .