The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot

An Anonymous StoryBy Anton Chekhov An Anonymous Story is a novella published in 1893 that has also been translated as The Story of a Nobody and The Story of an

A Tedious Story from an Old Man’s JournalBy Anton Chekhov Influenced by the death of his brother Nicolay from tuberculosis, Chekhov’s novella “A Tedious Story (From An Old Man’s Journal)”

Bartleby, the ScrivenerBy Herman Melville In an October 1939 radio broadcast Winston Churchill described his difficulty in understanding the actions of Russia by saying “it is a riddle, wrapped in