The Bet, and other stories

A 1915 English translation of short stories by Russian writer Anton Chekhov, translated by S. Koteliansky and J. M. Murry. The title story follows a banker and a young lawyer whose rash wager about imprisonment leads the lawyer to fifteen years of solitary confinement.

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