“She wanted a love that would absorb her whole being, her whole soul and reason—that would give her ideas and an object in life.” The Darling by Anton […]
Russian literature
The Lady with the Dog
“If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.” — Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog Part I: Yalta Dmitri Gurov, a married Moscow banker in his late […]
Russian literature
Uncle Vanya
“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” Act 1 The play opens at the rural estate of Professor Serebryakov, […]
Russian literature
Resurrection
“People are like rivers: the water is the same in all of them, but every river is narrow here, more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, […]