The Party and Other Stories

ISBN-13: 9781515021728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 112 str.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Opis

AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband's name-day was being celebrated, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talking incessantly, the clatter of the crockery, the stupidity of the servants, the long intervals between the courses, and the stays she had put on to conceal her condition from the visitors, wearied her to exhaustion.