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    The Death of a Government Clerk
    The Death of a Government Clerk
    The Death of a Government Clerk
    Audiobook6 minutes

    The Death of a Government Clerk

    Written by Anton Chekhov

    Narrated by Anastasia Bertollo

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    About this audiobook

    The death of a government clerk is a short humoristic story which was published in 1883. In this story the author raises the problem of a "little" man. In the article there are only three persons: a government clerk, a wife of the clerk and a general Brizzhalov. The main hero is a government clerk who is an object to joke. The author isn't interested in other persons. A "little" man in this story is comic and miserable. One evening, a government clerk who is called Ivan Dmitritch Tchervyakov sits in the second row of the stalls and watches the opera glass at the Cloches de Corneville. He is happy, but suddenly he sneezes to the head of the general.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSmartTouch Media
    Release dateJan 17, 2015
    ISBN9781467606059
    The Death of a Government Clerk
    Author

    Anton Chekhov

    Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 in Southern Russia and moved to Moscow to study medicine. Whilst at university he sold short stories and sketches to magazines to raise money to support his family. His success and acclaim grew as both a writer of fiction and of plays whilst he continued to practice medicine. Ill health forced him to move from his country estate near Moscow to Yalta where he wrote some of his most famous work, and it was there that he married actress Olga Knipper. He died from tuberculosis in 1904.

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