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[Sunday Salon] - My 2 New Reading Challenges

Oct 5th, 2008 | By Rob | Category: Featured Posts, Sunday Salon

I’ve been thinking about my inaugural Sunday Salon post for a few days now. Do I try and write something clever? Do I try and write something funny? Or do I just go ahead and write something bizarre and off the wall? Well I never actually did decide what to write in the end, because [...]

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“Chekhov Shorts”: A Living Chattel

Oct 1st, 2008 | By Rob | Category: Checkin Off the Chekhov Shorts

Title: A Living Chattel
Date Read: 01 October 2008
Word Count: 13,395
Briefly: Two men, Groholsky and Bugrov, ‘compete’ for the love of a single woman - Elizaveta. The plot is made more complicated because Bugrov is married to the woman.
Afterthoughts: A good strong story from Chekhov, although perhaps a little too long to be classed as a [...]

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