Yahoo Search Búsqueda en la Web

Read 356 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a zoologist scientist, a government worke…

About Anton Chekhov. Anton Chekhov was born into a large family in 1860 in Taganrog, Russia, the grandson of serfs. He supported the family by writing stories for magazines while simultaneously putting himself through medical school – where, tragically, he contracted tuberculosis. He published… More about Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov’s novella The Duel (1891) centres on the conflict between these two very different men, exploring a variety of topics and ideas in the process. ”He was perhaps very clever, talented, remarkably honest; perhaps if the sea and the mountains had not closed him in on all sides, he might have become an excellent Zemstvo leader, a statesman, an orator, a political writer, a saint.

Anton Chekhov’s novella The Duel (1891) centres on the conflict between these two very different men, exploring a variety of topics and ideas in the process. ”He was perhaps very clever, talented, remarkably honest; perhaps if the sea and the mountains had not closed him in on all sides, he might have become an excellent Zemstvo leader, a statesman, an orator, a political writer, a saint.

Chapters 1-4 Summary. Two government workers, Ivan Andreitch Laevsky, a clerk in the Ministry of Finance, and army doctor Alexandr Daviditch Samoylenko, have relocated to a southern seaside town. It is the late 19th century in the Caucauses, a region between the Baltic and Caspian seas colonized by the Russian empire.