At lunch next day there were very nice pies, crayfish, and mutton cutlets; and while we were eating, Nikanor, the cook, came up to ask what the visitors would like…

The whole sky had been overcast with rain-clouds from early morning; it was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in grey dull weather when the clouds…

At the furthest end of the village of Mironositskoe some belated sportsmen lodged for the night in the elder Prokofy’s barn. There were two of them, the veterinary surgeon Ivan…

I It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn…

Vanka Zhukov, a boy of nine, who had been for three months apprenticed to Alyahin the shoemaker, was sitting up on Christmas Eve. Waiting till his master and mistress and…

The villa overlooked the sea. The richness of the salty sea air permeated the calm, dusky rows of pines ; a light, steady breeze was playing about the orange trees and…