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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.
Young Edek lives with his elderly father who tries to keep his son by his side. The boy's longing for freedom and a girl clashes with his father's possessiveness. The pigeons symbolize unattainable freedom. The conflict leads to a tragic ending.
"For the Cow" by Jindřich Šimon Baar is a short story about a boy who feels a deep attachment to his cow and, despite poverty and environmental pressures, demonstrates selflessness, responsibility, and moral strength.
A romantic story by Victor Hugo, the 21st letter from his travelogue "Le Rhin" ("The Rhine", 1842). A romantic classic, similar to the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm or Andersen, but with Hugo's deep emotionality and philosophy of eternal love.
A cultural essay and guidebook, a humorous tale of cuisine with historiosophical reflections, spiced with brilliant humor and self-irony.
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.