Anton Tchekhov

The Duel and Other Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It was eight o'clock in the morning-the time when the officers, the local officials, and the visitors usually took their morning dip in the sea after the hot, stifling night, and then went into the pavilion to drink tea or coffee. Ivan Andreitch Laevsky, a thin, fair young man of twenty-eight, wearing the cap of a clerk in the Ministry of Finance and with slippers on his feet, coming down to bathe, found a number of acquaintances on the beach, and among them his friend Samoylenko, the army doctor. With his big cropped head, short neck, his red face, his big nose, his shaggy black eyebrows and grey whiskers, his stout puffy figure and his hoarse military bass, this Samoylenko made on every newcomer the unpleasant impression of a gruff bully; but two or three days after making his acquaintance, one began to think his face extraordinarily good-natured, kind, and even handsome. In spite of his clumsiness and rough manner,...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: eBookIt.com
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781456617691
• Artikelnr.: 54520818