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Photographic portrait, 1889V. Chekhovskii, Moscow · Public domain

Anton Chekhov

Chekhov’s The Bet puts a confident argument beside the consequences of a wager. Read the unnamed guest’s claim and the narrator’s image of desperate reading as different voices in Garnett’s English translation.

1860 AD – 1904 AD · 134 collected ↗