![]() ![]() Gurov, a bank official from Moscow whose marriage offers him no fulfillment and who has had numerous affairs, is attracted by a new arrival in Yalta, where he is on holiday alone. The content of the story is on the surface very conventional, but it is Chekhov's treatment of this content, particularly the kind of concrete detail he supplies, that creates recognition and identification on the part of the reader while also being defamiliarizing, giving the work its power. It is typical of his work in that it combines realism-accentuated by the avoidance of obvious literary devises and of moral or philosophical comment-with an understated symbolic quality, a combination that gives his work its unique atmosphere. "The Lady with the Little Dog" ("Dama s Sobachkoi") is one of the most anthologized of Anton Chekhov's short stories. ![]() THE LADY WITH THE LITTLE DOG (Dama sSobachkoi) ![]()
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