item: #1 of 16 id: 13437 author: None title: Best Russian Short Stories date: None words: 97007 flesch: 84 summary: Do you think so ill of me? Nor have you, I trust, ever seduced the wives of other men? I was an upright tanner and a good husband. My grandmother, who was always very severe upon the extravagance of young men, took pity, however, upon Chaplitzky. keywords: abramka; akakiyevich; akaky; aksionov; cloak; cold; countess; dark; day; days; dead; death; door; dress; evening; eyes; face; friend; god; good; hands; head; heart; hermann; home; house; know; lazarus; left; lelechka; life; lizaveta; look; looking; man; men; mind; moment; mother; mrs; night; official; order; people; petrovich; place; room; russian; shaldin; socrates; soul; table; things; thought; time; voice; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 13437.txt plain text: 13437.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 13505 author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich title: The Duel and Other Stories date: None words: 73948 flesch: 84 summary: 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. keywords: away; brother; day; deacon; dear; dinner; doctor; evening; eyes; face; feeling; fyodorovna; god; good; hand; head; home; house; koren; laevsky; lieutenant; life; look; love; man; men; mihalitch; money; morning; mother; nadyezhda; night; people; pyotr; room; round; samoylenko; table; thought; time; vera; vlassitch; voice; von; wife; woman; work; zoologist cache: 13505.txt plain text: 13505.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 14480 author: Gorky, Maksim title: Twenty-six and One, and Other Stories date: None words: 29456 flesch: 91 summary: Get along with you, friend, or the inspector'll see you; he-- The red-haired fellow who used to work with me on board the 'Kostroma,' continued Tchelkache, unmoved. mimicked Tchelkache, rising on his tottering limbs. keywords: boat; eyes; face; father; gavrilo; good; hand; head; iakov; life; malva; man; sand; sea; serejka; soldier; tchelkache; time; vassili; water; waves; work cache: 14480.txt plain text: 14480.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 36238 author: Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich title: The Mantle, and Other Stories date: None words: 56124 flesch: 84 summary: At such times the tailor was extraordinarily ready to meet his customer's proposals with bows and gratitude to boot. So he stepped up to the Cossacks and said Good day, comrades. keywords: akaki; church; cloak; colonel; cossack; councillor; day; devil; door; eyes; face; god; good; hand; headman; house; kovaloff; left; levko; look; night; nose; official; order; people; petrovitch; philosopher; place; room; round; street; thought; time; village; voice; want; way; wife; witch; woman; work cache: 36238.txt plain text: 36238.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 40745 author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor title: Short Stories date: None words: 82166 flesch: 84 summary: Who she is--I imagine there is no need for you to know her name, young man. Excuse me, but perhaps I have offended you by calling you young man, but I had nothing ... keywords: andreyitch; astafy; bed; course; crocodile; day; dear; emelyanoushka; evening; excellency; eyes; friend; general; gentleman; god; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; ilyitch; ivan; ivan ilyitch; ivanovitch; khee; lady; life; look; love; man; matveitch; mind; new; night; people; petrovitch; pseldonimov; room; sir; sort; tell; think; thought; time; way; wife cache: 40745.txt plain text: 40745.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 51018 author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf title: Three Days in the Village, and Other Sketches. Written from September 1909 to July 1910. date: None words: 19401 flesch: 86 summary: An enormous yearly-increasing army of beggars, cripples, administrative exiles, helpless old men, and above all unemployed workmen, lives--that is to say, shelters itself from cold and wet--and is actually fed by the hardest-worked and poorest class, the country peasants. In his conversation with me he admitted that, on the whole, it would be pleasanter not to serve at all; but he considered himself a useful functionary, because other men in his place would do even worse things. keywords: day; god; good; government; help; house; land; law; life; man; men; peasant; people; property; time; traveller; village; woman; work cache: 51018.txt plain text: 51018.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 55024 author: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich title: The Queen of Spades, and other stories date: None words: 57281 flesch: 83 summary: My grandmother, who had no mercy for the extravagance of young men, made an exception--I do not know why--in favour of Tchaplitzki. Not being in the habit of exchanging glances with young men who passed by her window, she remained with her eyes fixed on her work for nearly two hours, until she was told that lunch was ready. keywords: alexis; bed; countess; day; door; dunia; eyes; father; friend; gavril; good; great; hand; head; heart; hermann; home; house; ibrahim; kirdjali; korsakoff; lady; left; letter; life; lisa; lisaveta; love; man; maria; moment; morning; night; officer; people; peter; place; poor; postmaster; pushkin; room; russian; silvio; table; thought; time; tsar; way; wife; years; young cache: 55024.txt plain text: 55024.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 55219 author: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich title: The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin date: None words: 124593 flesch: 80 summary: It is no business of yours, old man, said my stroller, whether I sell it for drink or not. God be with you, old man! keywords: alexei; commandant; countess; day; door; doubrovsky; eyes; face; father; footnote; fortress; general; girl; god; good; great; guests; hand; head; heart; hermann; home; horses; house; ibrahim; ivan; ivanovna; kirila; lady; leave; left; letter; life; look; love; man; maria; masha; master; mind; moment; morning; mother; officer; order; people; peter; petrovitch; place; poor; pougatcheff; prince; room; round; savelitch; set; shvabrin; table; tell; thought; time; vladimir; voice; way; wife; words; years; young cache: 55219.txt plain text: 55219.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 55283 author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich title: The Bet, and other stories date: None words: 56283 flesch: 86 summary: During supper he said to the lawyer jokingly: Come to your senses, young man, before it's too late. Heaven knows there aren't many young men nowadays. keywords: aboguin; bed; dark; day; dear; doctor; door; eyes; face; friends; god; good; hair; hands; head; home; house; katy; life; look; love; man; men; moment; mother; people; right; room; street; table; things; thought; time; vassiliev; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; years cache: 55283.txt plain text: 55283.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 55307 author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich title: The Black Monk, and Other Stories date: None words: 68652 flesch: 84 summary: 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. keywords: abógin; andréi; averyanitch; bed; black; children; day; dmítritch; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; friend; garden; god; good; hands; head; home; hospital; house; iván; kovrin; life; live; long; man; men; mikhail; moment; money; mother; night; people; room; sleep; thought; time; town; tánya; varka; voice; want; way; wife; woman; word; yakob; years; yéfimitch cache: 55307.txt plain text: 55307.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 55577 author: Gorky, Maksim title: Tales of Two Countries date: None words: 40648 flesch: 85 summary: Men, she continued like a child, for every mother is a hundred times a child in her soul, men are always children of their mothers, for everyone has a mother, everyone is somebody's son, even you, old man; a woman bore you. Let us bow down before her who through the centuries gives birth to great men. keywords: course; dark; day; death; earth; eyes; face; father; good; grey; hand; head; heart; kind; know; lady; life; look; love; man; men; mother; people; sea; sister; son; sun; think; thought; time; town; way; woman; work cache: 55577.txt plain text: 55577.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 55636 author: Gorky, Maksim title: Orlóff and His Wife: Tales of the Barefoot Brigade date: None words: 134224 flesch: 85 summary: Farewell for the present, then!--The little man went to the door, and from that spot he quietly asked: If anything should happen ... please give notice at the editorial office.... But is it possible that such men drink? keywords: air; appearance; breast; captain; course; dark; day; days; desire; devil; doctor; door; drink; earth; editor; elizavéta; eyes; face; feeling; feet; fellow; girl; good; grigóry; gvózdeff; half; hand; head; heart; house; husband; ippolít; konováloff; kuválda; lay; life; look; man; matréna; matter; men; merchant; mind; night; orlóff; people; petúnnikoff; place; point; room; sergyéevitch; set; silence; sister; smile; sort; soul; street; sun; talk; teacher; think; thought; time; town; vavíloff; voice; várenka; want; water; way; wife; woman; words; work cache: 55636.txt plain text: 55636.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 55861 author: Gorky, Maksim title: The Outcasts, and Other Stories date: None words: 36483 flesch: 87 summary: What a rogue you are, old man! scowled the captain, looking blankly into Tiapa's face. Come, you one-eyed beggar, let's recall old times and have a song! keywords: captain; day; doss; drink; eyes; face; good; half; hand; head; house; judge; kouvalda; life; look; man; money; people; petounnikoff; right; round; schoolmaster; scraps; tiapa; time; town; vaviloff; vodka; voice; work cache: 55861.txt plain text: 55861.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 56870 author: Gorky, Maksim title: Tales from Gorky date: None words: 65426 flesch: 87 summary: and if he had poured into these three Christian words the holiest and purest feelings they would not have excited us, they would not have humanized us so much, as did that short and hollow: All right! Do not be afraid of us, good man! He succeeded in recalling himself as a child; he saw before him his village, his mother, a red-cheeked, plump woman, with good grey eyes, his father, a red-bearded giant with a stern face. keywords: air; bit; blue; bread; chelkash; cold; dark; day; efimushka; eyes; face; feet; fire; gabriel; good; grey; ground; hand; head; hopeful; jig; lay; left; leg; life; little; look; man; master; night; people; place; promtov; sea; silence; sky; soldier; sort; student; thing; time; village; voice; water; way; work; zazubrina cache: 56870.txt plain text: 56870.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 5741 author: None title: Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian date: None words: 34647 flesch: 83 summary: And now you have come to your senses; it is rather late in the day, old man, for the rest of us have known for a long time that he was the cheat of the regiment, said S., with difficulty restraining his laughter, and feeling very well satisfied with his fabrication. That's the reason of the friendship between them, old man keywords: adjutant; captain; day; dog; door; eyes; face; footnote; gavrila; gerasim; god; guskof; hand; head; house; kapiton; lady; life; look; man; mistress; mumu; night; people; round; silvio; tatiana; tell; thought; time; way cache: 5741.txt plain text: 5741.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 7120 author: Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich title: Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories date: None words: 63842 flesch: 89 summary: You've gone clean off your head, old man, he said with a jeer. Now, mind, old man, he added as he pulled the cord off his wrists, remember, I have spared you, mind that! Naum Ivanitch, my dear, faltered Yefrem, the Lord will have mercy upon you! keywords: akim; aunt; avdotya; bed; colibri; david; day; door; emilie; eyes; face; father; going; good; hand; head; home; house; inn; kirillovna; kuzma; left; lizaveta; looking; man; money; naum; night; raissa; room; round; thought; time; tyeglev; vassilyevitch; voice; watch; way; wife; yefrem cache: 7120.txt plain text: 7120.txt