The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (translated by Constance Garnett)
Cover: Yalta (1899), oil on canvas by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1900)
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Chekhov's best-known tale of a married man and woman who meet on holiday at Yalta and cannot let each other go, with other stories of provincial life, ambition and loneliness. Constance Garnett's translation keeps his light, painful touch.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.