The Duel
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Subjects: Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 -- Translations into English; Short stories, Russian -- Translations into English
Description: <p><i>The Duel</i> is one of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anton-chekhov">Chekhov’s</a> longest works, skirting the edge between novel and novella. Like many of Chekhov’s works, it was first published as a serial.</p>
			<p>Laevsky is a womanizing drunkard, a slave to life’s vices. His wantonness clashes with the moralistic zoologist Von Koren, who grows to despise Laevsky. Their mutual enmity culminates in a duel—though neither they, nor their friends, really want it to happen.</p>