The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories

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This volume is Volume 9 of Tales of Chekhov. Its contents list stories including The Schoolmistress, Misery, A Lady's Story, The Bet and The Shoemaker and the Devil.

The Schoolmistress opens on a drive out of town on a warm April day, with snow still lying in the ditches. Marya Vassilyevna rides with Semyon, who repeats gossip that officials pocketed money meant for a new school; she answers that the school cost only a thousand and that it is wrong to slander people. The passage adds that the peasants think she is paid too much, twenty-one roubles a month. In another story a turner on a sledge in the snow thinks "To live over again," remembering his wife Matryona and the forty years that passed after their wedding.

About the author

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian short-story writer and playwright who worked as a physician for much of his life. A master of the modern short story and author of plays such as The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard, he shaped twentieth-century drama and fiction alike before dying of tuberculosis at forty-four.