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Автор: Chekhov Anton (Чехов Антон)
Название: The Wife and Other Stories
ISBN: 9782382741627
Издательство: Les Prairies Numeriques
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Модернистская и современная художественная литература

Классическая художественная литература (до 1945 Г.)

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ISBN-10: 2382741627
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 164
Вес: 0.22 кг.
Дата издания: 27.11.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 21.01 x 14.81 x 0.97 cm
Поставляется из: США
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The Wife and Other Stories by Anton ChekhovI RECEIVED the following letter: DEAR SIR, PAVEL ANDREITCH Not far from you-that is to say, in the village of Pestrovo-very distressing incidents are taking place, concerning which I feel it my duty to write to you. All the peasants of that village sold their cottages and all their belongings, and set off for the province of Tomsk, but did not succeed in getting there, and have come back. Here, of course, they have nothing now everything belongs to other people. They have settled three or four families in a hut, so that there are no less than fifteen persons of both sexes in each hut, not counting the young children and the long and the short of it is, there is nothing to eat. There is famine and there is a terrible pestilence of hunger, or spotted, typhus literally every one is stricken. The doctors assistant says one goes into a cottage and what does one see? Every one is sick, every one delirious, some laughing, others frantic the huts are filthy there is no one to fetch them water, no one to give them a drink, and nothing to eat but frozen potatoes. What can Sobol (our Zemstvo doctor) and his lady assistant do when more than medicine the peasants need bread which they have not? The District Zemstvo refuses to assist them, on the ground that their names have been taken off the register of this district, and that they are now reckoned as inhabitants of Tomsk and, besides, the Zemstvo has no money. Laying these facts before you, and knowing your humanity, I beg you not to refuse immediate help. Your well-wisher. Obviously the letter was written by the doctor with the animal name* or his lady assistant. Zemstvo doctors and their assistants go on for years growing more and more convinced every day that they can do nothing, and yet continue to receive their salaries from people who are living upon frozen potatoes, and consider they have a right to judge whether I am humane or not. *Sobol in Russian means sable-marten.-TRANSLATORS NOTE. Worried by the anonymous letter and by the fact that peasants came every morning to the servants kitchen and went down on their knees there, and that twenty sacks of rye had been stolen at night out of the barn, the wall having first been broken in, and by the general depression which was fostered by conversations, newspapers, and horrible weather-worried by all this, I worked listlessly and ineffectively. I was writing A History of Railways I had to read a great number of Russian and foreign books, pamphlets, and articles in the magazines, to make calculations, to refer to logarithms, to think and to write then again to read, calculate, and think but as soon as I took up a book or began to think, my thoughts were in a muddle, my eyes began blinking, I would get up from the table with a sigh and begin walking about the big rooms of my deserted country-house.

The Wife and Other Stories, Chekhov Anton