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The Student by Anton Chekhov: A Perfect Short Story
Written by Rebecca Reid on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Filed under: Fiction, Short StoriesAnton Chekhov’s “The Student” is the perfect story.
Decide for yourself by reading it at Project Gutenberg (1,500 words) or listening to it at LibriVox (10 minutes). Note that I read a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Here are some elements that make it perfect for me.
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From October 2008-July 2009, I'm hosting the Really Old Classics Challenge.
Also, as an ongoing personal challenge, I'm reading all the works on the How to Read and Why reading list compiled by Harold Bloom. I'd love for you to either join me in this challenge or to follow along with me as I try to learn to read well.
