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Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts
by Bill NyeBill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said "We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves." And he did exactly that in hundreds of newspaper columns that were later collected into books. This is a selection of just 35 of the most humorous, wry and downright funny cogitations o..
A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories
by Bill NyeA Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories from Edgar Wilson Nye. American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist (1850-1896)..
The Seagull
by Anton Pavlovich ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov's play The Sea-Gull was a triumph, though it was a famous failure during first production. The Sea-Gull deals with the artistic conflicts between four major characters actress Arkadina, her son and a playwright Konstantin, her lover Trigorin and Nina. Arkadina while on a vacation to her brother's country estate along-with he..
Uncle Vanya
by Anton Pavlovich ChekhovUncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1898 and received its Moscow premiere in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate..
Lady With the Dog and Other Stories
by Anton Pavlovich ChekhovThe Lady with the Dog and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Russian dramatist Anton Pavlovich Chekhov which deal with susceptible human mind. The Lady with the Dog narrates the story of Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna falls into an extra martial affair during a vacation at Mascow. Though they want to be faithful to their spouses, t..
Ward No. 6
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov"Ward No. 6" is an 1892 short story by Anton Chekhov. The story is set in a provincial mental asylum and explores the philosophical conflict between Ivan Gromov, a patient, and Andrey Ragin, the director of the asylum. Gromov denounces the injustice he sees everywhere, while Dr. Ragin insists on ignoring injustice and other evils; partially as a re..
Ivanov
by Anton Pavlovich ChekhovIvanov is a four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Ivanov was first performed in 1887, when Fiodor Korsh, owner of the Korsh Theatre in Moscow, commissioned Chekhov to write a comedy. Chekhov, however, responded with a four-act drama, which he wrote in ten days...
An Anonymous Story
by Anton Pavlovich ChekhovThe narrator (the "anonymous man"), who is actually a political activist (perhaps even an anarchist), assumes a new fake identity and takes a job as Orlov's footman, in order to get inside information to use against his father. While working undercover in this way, the narrator ("Stefan") observes a domestic tragedy...