Read The Lady with the Dog

The Lady with the Dog, Ward No. 6 and the rest; the short story as we know it.

A St Petersburg copying clerk saves for months for a new coat and is robbed of it on the first night he wears it.

A successful judge falls ill and works out, over three months of dying, that he lived the whole thing wrong.

She sells her hair to buy him a chain for his watch; he sells the watch to buy her combs for her hair.

A married woman, a cavalry officer and a train; "all happy families are alike".

A bored dandy rejects Tatyana and regrets it; Pushkin's novel in verse.

A poet-doctor and Lara through the revolution and civil war; smuggled out and given the Nobel.

The twelve Strand stories, A Scandal in Bohemia to The Copper Beeches.