«Шедевры юмора. 100 лучших юмористических историй» — это очень веселая книга, содержащая цвет зарубежной и отечественной юмористической прозы 19–21 века.Тут есть замечательные произведения, созданные такими «королями смеха» как Аркадий Аверченко, Саша Черный, Влас Дорошевич, Антон Чехов, Илья Ильф, Джером Клапка Джером, О. Генри и др.◦Не менее веселыми и задорными, нежели у классиков, являются включенные в книгу рассказы современных авторов — Михаила Блехмана и Семена Каминского. Также в сборник вошли смешные истории от «серьезных» писателей, к примеру Федора Достоевского и Леонида Андреева, чьи юмористические произведения остались практически неизвестны современному читателю.Тематика книги очень разнообразна: она включает массу комических случаев, приключившихся с деятелями культуры и журналистами, детишками и барышнями, бандитами, военными и бизнесменами, а также с простыми скромными обывателями. Читатель вволю посмеется над потешными инструкциями и советами, обучающими его искусству рекламы, пения и воспитанию подрастающего поколения.

Знаменитый Антон Павлович Чехов (1860–1904) первые шаги в русской литературе делал под псевдонимами Антоша Чехонте, «Человек без селезенки», Брат моего брата как автор юмористических рассказов и фельетонов, которые издавали в юмористических московских журналах «Будильник», «Зритель» и др. и в петербургских юмористических еженедельниках «Осколки», «Стрекоза», а впоследствии вошли в первые книги начинающего автора. Именно первые сборники и книги А. Чехова – «Шалость», «Сказки Мельпомены», «Пестрые рассказы», а также рассказы, печатавшиеся в журналах «Осколки», «Зеркало» и др., включены в эту книгу, раскрывающую юмористический талант признанного в мире писателя.

The Darling is a short story by Russian author Anton Chekhov, first published in 1899 in London, it follows the life of a woman who is referred to as darling. Olenka Plemyannikova, the daughter of a retired collegiate assessor, falls in love with the theater owner, Kukin. Olenka’s father dies and she marries Kukin, the two of them live a happy married life…until Kukin travels to Moscow and dies.

Six selections from the famed Russian showcase his natural aptitude for detail, dialogue, humor, and compassion. Includes The Darling, a poignant piece supporting the claim that life has no meaning without love; as well as The Kiss, Anna on the Neck, The Man in a Case, The Malefactor, and the title story. Chekhov’s unerring insight into the turbulent emotions that stir men and women, in The Chemist’s Wife and the others to be found within The Duel and Other Stories, instills his gemlike fiction with a still-undiminished power.

Twenty-two lesser-known short stories from Anton Chekhov including; The Horse-Stealers, Ward No. 6, The Petchenyeg, A Dead Body, A Happy Ending, The Looking-Glass, Old Age, Darkness, The Beggar, A Story Without a Title, In Trouble, Frost, A Slander, Minds in Ferment, Gone Astray, An Avenger, The Jeune Premier, A Defenceless Creature, An Enigmatic Nature, A Happy Man, A Troublesome Visitor, An Actor’s End.

The House with the Mezzanine features a romantic story of a young artist and Eugenia, one of the two sisters living in the house. Eugenia longs to discover the domain of the Eternal and the Beautiful though her discovery of the arts and her developing romantic relationship. Lidia, the other sister, does not care for endearments, she talks only of serious matters; she lives her life apart, and to her mother and sister is as sacred and enigmatic a person as the admiral, always sitting in his cabin, is to the sailors. Other stories in this volume include: The Darling, Polinka, Anyuta, The Two Vologyas, The Trousseau, The Helpmate, Talent, Three Years.

During the last ten years of his life, Anton Chekhov penned his great plays, spent time treating the sick, and wrote a small number of stories that are considered his masterpieces. The eleven stories collected here-_The Lady with the Little Dog,_ The House with the Mezzanine, My Life, Peasants, A Visit to Friends, Ionych, About Love, In the Ravine, The Bishop, The Bride, and Disturbing the Balance-hail from this fertile period. They reveal a writer who, in response to the techniques of Symbolism and Impressionism, moved beyond nineteenth-century realism to become an innovator of the modern short story, influencing such key twentieth-century literary figures as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.

This book contains the following stories: The Schoolmaster, Enemies, The Examining Magistrate, Betrothed, From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man, In the Dark, A Play, A Mystery, Strong Impressions, Drunk, The Marshal’s Widow, A Bad Business, In the Court, Boots, Joy, Ladies, A Peculiar Man, At the Barber’s, An Inadvertence, The Album, Oh The Public, A Tripping Tongue, Overdoing It, The Orator, Malingerers, In the Graveyard, Hush , In an Hotel, and In a Strange Land.

The Schoolmistress and Other Stories contains twenty-one tales by Russian master of drama and the short story, Anton Chekhov. Among the stories is one of Chekhov’s classics, The Bet, in which a greedy banker makes an ill-considered bet regarding capital punishment with a young and impressionable guest. Fifteen years later – the surprise ending provides one of Chekhov’s most thought-provoking tales. The title story is a careful reminder of the soul-deadening life of a teacher in the Russian countryside – for in Russia of Chekhov’s day, education was less-valued than it is today, and teachers greatly underpaid and undervalued. Chekhov was of a different social background than more aristocratic Russian authors such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Turgenev – this offered him an insight into character that differed from theirs. A physician as well, Chekhov’s observational skills are clear in this, as with all of his collections of short fiction. These stories will remind the reader of other 19th Century masters of short fiction, such as Maupassant. But their nature, and poetic irony, is exclusively that of Anton Chekhov.

In this classic short story, Chekhov takes a snapshot of the Russian life, illuminating the harsh complexities and yet subtle simplicities that interact seamlessly together. The cold and gloom of the Russian environment cannot compare to the relationship that Pavel Andreitch, a rich aristocratic, has with his wife, who is no longer in love, or even tolerant of her husband, although helplessly reliant on his financial support. Their disintegrating relationship is set to the backdrop of the starving peasants of the lower classes, illuminating the perennial tension of an egotistical, self-centered man and the struggling goodness of a woman who cares about more than just herself.

Anton Checkhov’s The Witch and other stories is one of his many collection of short stories. Included in this book are fifteen of Chekhov’s; The Witch, Peasant Wives, The Post, The New Villa, Dreams, The Pipe, Agafya, At Christmas Time, Gusev, The Student, In the Ravine, The Huntsman, Happiness, A Malefactor, Peasants. ‘Through the monotonous roar of the storm he caught a scarcely audible thin and jingling monotone like the shrill note of a gnat when it wants to settle on one’s cheek and is angry at being prevented.’

Книга «12 великих трагедий» – уникальное издание, позволяющее ознакомиться с самыми знаковыми произведениями в истории мировой драматургии, вышедшими из-под пера выдающихся мастеров жанра.Многие пьесы, включенные в книгу, посвящены реальным историческим персонажам и событиям, однако они творчески переосмыслены и обогащены благодаря оригинальным авторским интерпретациям.Книга включает произведения, созданные со времен греческой античности до начала прошлого века, поэтому внимательные читатели не только насладятся сюжетом пьес, но и увидят основные этапы эволюции драматического и сценаристского искусства.