Rothschild’s FiddleBy Anton Chekhov Yakov Ivanov is an elderly coffin-maker in a small village with a population that doesn’t generate enough deaths for him to make any real money. He
The FlyBy Katherine Mansfield An elderly man is visiting the office of the owner of his former employer, referred to only as “the boss”, who is showing off recent renovations
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)”