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The Bet and Other Stories

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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  • 196 sidor
  • 2023
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  • About the Author
  • About the Translator


A Literary Classic by ANTON CHEKHOV.


The Bet and Other Stories by RUSSIAN author ANTON CHEKHOV is a collection of short stories first published in 1899 in RUSSIA.


The title story of this collection, "The Bet," tells of a banker and a lawyer who, while debating the merits of capital punishment or life imprisonment, enter into a strange contractual arrangement. The banker will pay $2 million if the lawyer can endure 15 years of imprisonment, and the banker is the jailer.


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"I don't agree with you," said the host. "I myself have experienced neither capital punishment nor life-imprisonment, but if one may judge a priori, then in my opinion capital punishment is more moral and more humane than imprisonment. Execution kills instantly, life-imprisonment kills by degrees. Who is the more humane executioner, one who kills you in a few seconds or one who draws the life out of you incessantly, for years?"


Synopsis


Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), a Russian playwright and short story writer, is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. He was a key figure of early modernism in the theatre and also wrote hundreds of short stories, while working in his profession as a medical doctor.


Title Details


  • Translation by Constance C. Garnett, 1901
  • Short stories


  • Författare: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781628344448
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 196
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-05-09
  • Översättare: Constance Garnett
  • Förlag: Word Well Enterprises