A collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov, including the title story about a schoolmistress who reflects on her life during a journey to town. Chekhov's stories are valued for their quiet insight into everyday life and human nature.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
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THE SCHOOLMISTRESS AND OTHER STORIES By Anton Chekhov FROM THE TALES OF CHEKHOV, VOLUME 9 THE SCHOOLMISTRESS AT half-past eight they drove out of the town. The highroad was dry, a lovely April sun was shining warmly, but the snow was still lying in the ditches and in the woods. Winter, dark, long, and spiteful, was hardly over; spring had come all of a sudden. But neither the warmth nor the languid transparent woods, warmed by the breath of spring, nor the black flocks of birds flying
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