Reminiscences Of Anton Chekhov Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov Once he invited me to the village Koutchouk-Koy where he had a tiny strip of land and a white, two-storied house. There, while showing me his "estate," he began to speak with animation: "If I had plenty of money, I should build a sanatorium here for invalid village teachers. You know, I would put up a large, bright building - very bright, with large windows and lofty rooms. I would have a line library, different musical instruments, bees, a vegetable garden, an orchard... There would be lectures on agriculture, mythology... Teachers ought to know everything, everything, my dear fellow." He was suddenly silent, coughed, looked at me out of the corners of his eyes, and smiled that tender, channing smile of his which attracted one so irresistibly to him and made one listen so attentively to his words. "Does it bore you to listen to my fantasies? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.