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A series which explores people's feelings of belonging and affinity with places; explored through locations, groups, faith, sport, the coast and community symbols.Produced for BBC Essex. Broadcast in 2002.Features produced from interviews for the 'A Sense of Place' documentary series here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/a-sense-of-place-features Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Anton Chekhov’s haunting short story Gooseberries, a rain-soaked evening in the Russian countryside becomes the backdrop for a quietly devastating tale of comfort, delusion, and moral awakening.

In this masterful story of numb desperation and farcical humor of everyday life by Russian playwright and writer Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Nilov, a poor shoemaker who longs to become rich, is granted his wish. But he soon discovers something he wasn't prepared for.

La dame au petit chien promène son ennui et son chien sur la digue d'une station balnéaire de la mer Noire. Un homme solitaire la remarque, l'aime, mais ne peut triompher plus tard de toutes les barrières qui se dressent sur le chemin de leur bonheur. De toutes les nouvelles écrites par Tchekhov, "La dame au petit chien" est l'une des plus célèbres.

Im Frühjahr 1346 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung steht die Menschheit vor der größten Bedrohung ihrer Geschichte: Mit einer gigantischen Übermacht hat die Terminale Kolonne TRAITOR die Milchstraße besetzt und alle bewohnten Planeten unter ihre Kontrolle gebracht. Die gigantische Raumflotte steht im Dienst der sogenannten Chaotarchen. Ihr Ziel ist, die Ressourcen der Milchstraße auszubeuten, um die Existenz der Negasphäre abzusichern.

The collection of the great Russian writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) includes his stories.

Britain, 1940, the world is at war and 10-year-old twins Harry and Sophie are evacuated from London to live with their Great Uncle. The twins immediately miss home and perhaps most of all for Harry, the tearoom where their mum works, and Harry spends hours watching the professional dancers – secretly dreaming of the day he might do the same.

Business Success Through Self-Knowledge takes you on a short journey that explains why many of us have a sense of unrealized potential that eludes us. It offers examples and illustrations of how we create tacit but enduring mental models early in life that limit our view of ourselves and our power to influence others. Clear and practical steps are included on how to transform ourselves, our organizations, and those we seek to influence.

Would you go into voluntary solitary confinement for 15 years in order to get rich? And more importantly, what would happen to you in the end? Our protagonist, the banker, agrees to pay millions to a young lawyer who believes he can stay locked up for 15 years in exchange for a multimillion reward. The bet does go ahead, but what it leads to both surprises and frightens the banker. Read in English, unabridged.

One great example of Chekhov's minimalism is found in The Beauties, a very short "story" - I use the term loosely, because it is really just two snapshots, two unrelated anecdotes in which a man describes seeing true beauty in two different women. These women are imperfect, yet enigmatically alluring. Chekhov's genius lies in the way he manages to convey with such apparent effortlessness a profound sense of the mystery of beauty, and of the sadness of those who observe and think.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. Human beings are, in the main, social animals, they like to gather, to herd together, to share experiences. But some do not. Either through choice or exclusion their way forward is difficult. In this volume our authors and their characters share their stories.

Anton Chekhov belongs to the cohort of the most prominent Russian classics, together with Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pushkin. The rankings of the most read authors, comprising the 'golden fund' of the world's literature, persistently include Chekhov alongside Charles Dickens, the Bronte Sisters, Mark Twain... Chekhov's plays, such as Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and the short stories of this collection, are featured in the curriculum of faculties of philology of top global universities, such as University of Oxford, Harvard University and many more.

Im Frühjahr 1346 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung steht die Menschheit vor der größten Bedrohung ihrer Geschichte: Mit einer gigantischen Übermacht hat die Terminale Kolonne TRAITOR die Milchstraße besetzt und alle bewohnten Planeten unter ihre Kontrolle gebracht. Die gigantische Raumflotte steht im Dienst der sogenannten Chaotarchen. Ihr Ziel ist, die Ressourcen der Milchstraße auszubeuten, um die Existenz der Negasphäre abzusichern.

The Duel is a novella by Anton Chekhov and was published in 1891. It tells the story of the debates between a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician about wits and ethics. This verbal battle leads to a violent contest: the duel. The story begins with Ivan Andreitch Laevsky - a government worker - who has run off with a married woman, Nadyezyhda Fyodorovna to a small town in the Caucasus. While there, he forms several acquaintanceships with a colorful array of characters.

In this sequel to Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Anton Krait, internationally acclaimed grand master of “The Game,” is plagued by the aftereffects of his adventure in Egypt the year before. Meanwhile, the murderous cult known as “the Vril” has become stronger than ever and has persuaded the public that Krait is a criminal mastermind who is behind a a series of terrorist bombings. With Krait’s intermittent amnesia, he finds himself at a severe disadvantage as he travels around the world, trying to clear his name and forestall yet another global catastrophe.

The Darling is a short story by Russian author Anton Chekhov, first published in the No.1, 1899, issue of Semya (Family) magazine, on January 3, in Moscow. Later, Chekhov included it into Volume 9 of his Collected Works, published by Adolf Marks. The story follows the life of a woman who is referred to by others as "darling" for her generosity and submissive nature.

Welcome to "In His Time: Trusting God Beyond Our Timetables," a journey into understanding and embracing the divine timing of God. In our fast-paced world, where immediacy is often prized over patience, and results are demanded on tight schedules, the concept of waiting on God’s timing can be both challenging and counterintuitive. Yet, the Bible repeatedly shows us that God does not operate according to human schedules. His ways and thoughts are higher than ours, and His timing is always perfect, though often mysterious from our limited perspective. This book explores why God's timing ...

Frank Pettingell, Emma Hignett, Siobhan McKenna and Boris Karloff read eight short stories by the literary greats, including Poe, Kipling, Defoe, Chekov, and Wilde.

Loss in any form seems to burden us with more weight than anything that can possibly be gained or learnt from. The loss of a person, a loved one, is often overwhelming. Lives so interwoven that the severing or loss of one life leaves the other weakened, unable to function for some time. Recovery comes in a myriad of forms but is usually debilitating, slow and, in the end, we are not as whole as we once were.It is a subject that authors return to again and again.

Anton Tschechow / Anton Chekhovlas schon als Kind viel, besuchte oft das Theater und begann zu dieser Zeit mit seinen ersten literarischen Versuchen. Sein Talent zeigte sich früh - in seiner Beobachtungsgabe und seiner Gewissenhaftigkeit. Er entschloss sich, Arzt zu werden, und ging 1879 nach Moskau an die medizinische Fakultät. Während des Studiums verdiente er Geld mit dem Schreiben von Kurzgeschichten für die Feuilletons verschiedener humoristischer Zeitschriften.