The Wife, and Other Stories

A 1918 English translation of nine short stories by Russian author Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett. The title story follows a wealthy landowner drawn into aiding starving peasants during a famine while struggling with his estranged wife.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic short stories›Russian and Eastern European›Turn of the century to the 1920s, 1880 to 1929

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Bibliophiles›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic short stories›Russian and Eastern European