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id: 37129
author: Gorky, Maksim
title: Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov
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flesch: 78
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  He sat opposite Anton Chekhov and, looking fixedly into Chekhov's face with his black eyes, said in a melancholy bass voice: From such impressions of existence within the space of the tutorial session there comes a psychical conglomeration which crushes every possibility of an objective attitude towards the surrounding universe. All his life Chekhov lived on his own soul; he was always himself, inwardly free, and he never troubled about what some people expected and others--coarser people--demanded of Anton Chekhov.


id: 12494
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: Note-Book of Anton Chekhov
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flesch: 92
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  And I also thought that, before the dawn of a new life has broken, we shall turn into sinister old men and women and we shall be the first who, in our hatred of that dawn, will calumniate it. The difference between man and woman: a woman, as she grows old gives herself up more and more to female affairs; a man, as he grows old, withdraws himself more and more from female affairs.


id: 13412
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
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words: 57785
sentence: 4338
flesch: 88
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  I have come for you, old man! began Poplavsky, finding him at home. This was the name given to a decrepit, doleful old man who really had once been an engineer and very well off; he had squandered all his property and towards the end of his life had got into a restaurant where he looked after the waiters and singers and carried out various commissions relating to the fair sex.


id: 13417
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
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words: 62899
sentence: 4560
flesch: 90
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  The fifth player, the cook's son, Andrey, a dark-skinned and sickly looking boy in a cotton shirt, with a copper cross on his breast, stands motionless, looking dreamily at the numbers. The two aunts go on sitting in the same position immovably, with their arms folded across their bosoms and doze, staring with their pewtery little eyes at the lamp.


id: 13414
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: Love and Other Stories
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words: 64307
sentence: 5089
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Pale, fragile, light--she looked as though a breath would send her flying like a feather to the skies--a gentle, perplexed face, little hands, soft long hair to her belt, a waist as thin as a wasp's--altogether something ethereal, transparent like moonlight--in fact, from the point of view of a high-school boy a peerless beauty. . . . Little woman!


id: 55307
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: The Black Monk, and Other Stories
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sentence: 4342
flesch: 84
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  And as he reflected upon this, it seemed all the more strange, since he knew himself in reality to be a sensitive, lachrymose old man. He knows that in this very moment, while his thoughts are sweeping round the sun with the cooling earth, in the hospital building in a line with his lodgings, lie men tortured by pain and tormented by uncleanliness; one cannot sleep owing to the insects, and howls in his pain; another is catching erysipelas, and groaning at the tightness of his bandages; others are playing cards with the nurses, and drinking vodka.


id: 13413
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: The Party and Other Stories
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words: 70844
sentence: 4011
flesch: 84
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  Two skinny-looking little girls who had been brought out of the orphanage for Christmas came up to kiss Anna Akimovna's hand, and stood before her transfixed with admiration of her splendid dress; she noticed that one of the girls squinted, and in the midst of her light-hearted holiday mood she felt a sick pang at her heart at the thought that young men would despise the girl, and that she would never marry. Varya's eyes were red with crying, and she complained of a headache, while Shelestov ate a great deal, saying that young men nowadays were unreliable, and that there was very little gentlemanly feeling among them.


id: 13416
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: The Darling and Other Stories
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sentence: 4226
flesch: 85
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  Now I've grown calmer--it doesn't weigh on my heart; but in old days, when I was younger, it hurt me--ach! In old days she had loved it when they read the prayers for the day at evening service, and the choir sang anthems such as I will open my lips.


id: 13415
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
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words: 72845
sentence: 4232
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Is Zinaida Fyodorovna at home? When Orlov did not want to keep an appointment with Zinaida Fyodorovna, or when he forgot that he had promised to go and see her, I drove to Znamensky Street, put a letter into her hands and told a lie.


id: 13505
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: The Duel and Other Stories
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words: 73948
sentence: 4565
flesch: 84
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  To Von Koren men are puppets and nonentities, too trivial to be the object of his life. He had in his day taken his degree at the university, but he now looked upon his studies as though in them he had discharged a duty incumbent upon young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five; at any rate, the ideas which now strayed every day through his mind had nothing in common with the university or the subjects he had studied there.


id: 13419
author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
title: The Bishop and Other Stories
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words: 78197
sentence: 4624
flesch: 86
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summary:
  It was hard to recognize the mysterious elusive Varlamov, who was sought by everyone, who was always on his rounds, and who had far more money than Countess Dranitsky, in the short, grey little man in big boots, who was sitting on an ugly little nag and talking to peasants at an hour when all decent people were asleep. I understand it from myself, you see old man . .


