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A vivid account of the author's trip to Afghanistan in 1921-1922, a country in a turbulent period of modernization under the reformist king Amanullah Khan, the clash of tradition and the new age, and the exotic life of Afghan society.
The story takes place on a country estate where a group of characters from different social classes gather, faced with boredom, unfulfilled ambitions, and emotional voids.
A satirical search for hidden treasure in post-revolutionary Russia. Former nobleman Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov and con artist Ostap Bender chase after valuables, exposing the greed and absurdities of Soviet society.
Between 1892, when "The Fragment", the first novella in this book, was published, and "The Peasant" (1897) and "On the Carts" (1897), A. P. Chekhov made a series of other artistically successful observations of the society in which he lived.
The novel follows Boris Kostomarov, an engineer in Soviet Russia, who, through conflicts with bureaucracy, moral questioning, and the fates of people in remote forests, reveals the complexity of Soviet society and the price of personal conscience.
This book contains the narrative work of the great Russian writer, A. P. Chekhov, from the years 1888-1892. In it, we will no longer encounter the small humorous stories with which "Antoša Čehonte" brilliantly began his career in humor magazines.