The twenty-first volume of the complete works of the outstanding Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) includes short stories and novellas written in 1894–1897.
She danced a mazurka with that same huge officer; he moved about importantly and heavily, as if a mass in a uniform, walked, swung his shoulders and chest, tapping his feet ever so slightly—he was terribly unwilling to dance, and she fluttered around him, teasing him with her beauty, with her open neck; her eyes burned with mischief, her movements were passionate, while he grew ever more indifferent and held out his hands to her graciously, like a king...
A. P. Chekhov. “Anna on the Neck”
Contents:
1. Anna on the Neck
2. The House with the Mezzanine
3. Ariadne
4. The White-Froned One
5. In the Native Corner
6. The House with the Mezzanine
7. My Life (A Provincial’s Story)
8. The Peasants
9. On a Wheeled Sled
10. Pecheneg
11. A Wife
12. Murder