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The Duel

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Chapter 1
22:33
Chapter 2
13:43
Chapter 3
20:04
Chapter 4
14:06
Chapter 5
16:26
Chapter 6
19:37
Chapter 7
7:01
Chapter 8
5:43
Chapter 9
17:12
Chapter 10
19:46
Chapter 11
17:15
Chapter 12
15:02
Chapter 13
8:15
Chapter 14
9:53
Chapter 15
23:29
Chapter 16
18:04
Chapter 17
14:49
Chapter 18
11:57
Chapter 19
16:22
Chapter 20
7:46
Chapter 21
14:04

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The Duel is one of Anton Chekhov's finest longer stories, published in 1891 and set in a sleepy town on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Its central figure, Laevsky, is an idle and self-pitying government clerk who has grown tired of the woman he ran away with and dreams only of escape, while the coldly rational zoologist Von Koren despises him and believes such weak men should be swept away. Their mutual contempt hardens until it drives the two men toward a duel. With deep sympathy and no easy judgements, Chekhov shows both of them forced by that moment to see themselves clearly. This free PDF and EPUB presents Constance Garnett's translation of the complete story.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer. Widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time, his career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.

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