01653nam 22003853 450 991015964310332120240412084504.03-95676-248-7(CKB)3710000001020281(BIP)051875666(MiAaPQ)EBC7378105(Au-PeEL)EBL7378105(EXLCZ)99371000000102028120240412d2015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Dreary Story1st ed.Chicago :Otbebookpublishing,2015.©2015.1 online resource (58 p.) Classics To GoThe narrator, Nikolai Stepanych, tells his own story. He begins by explaining that his own name is very popular and respected. He is a famous professor of medicine and acouncillor He describes himself as very old and feeble. He is wrinkled and frail. Stepanych describes his failing memory and his growing propensity toward insomnia. He looks at his fat, ungainly wife and tries to find in her the slender beauty he married. She only worries about poverty and bargains. He is embarrassed that his daughter Liza is aware of her parents' money concerns, that they have trouble paying the servants. She volunteers to sell her personal items to raise money, which bothers her father even more.Classics To GoChekhov Anton27405MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910159643103321A Dreary Story4152397UNINA