Дама с собачкой
The Lady with the Dog
Gurov, a married Moscow banker on holiday in Yalta, begins an affair with a young married woman and finds, back home, that he cannot forget her. Four short chapters.
The opening
Говорили, что на набережной появилось новое лицо: дама с собачкой.
It was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog.
Дмитрий Дмитрич Гуров, проживший в Ялте уже две недели и привыкший тут, тоже стал интересоваться новыми лицами.
Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to take an interest in new arrivals.
Translation
- Constance Garnett, The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (The Tales of Chekhov, vol. 3), 1917Garnett's complete translation.Public Domain
5266 words, about 41 minutes of reading.
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