The Black Monk, and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

ACT I _The scene is laid in the park on SORIN'S estate.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

BY ANTON TCHEKHOV Translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT CONTENTS THE LADY WITH THE DOG A DOCTOR'S VISIT AN UPHEAVAL IONITCH THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY THE BLACK MONK VOLODYA AN ANONYMOUS STORY...

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

UNCLE VANYA SCENES FROM COUNTRY LIFE IN FOUR ACTS By Anton Checkov CHARACTERS ALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor HELENA, his wife, twenty-seven years old SONIA, his daughter by a ...

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

By Anton Chekhov Translated, with an Introduction, by Julius West [The First Series Plays have been previously published by Project Gutenberg in etext numbers: 1753 through 1756] CONTENTS ...

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...