The Lady with the Dog (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- First Published: 1899
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1890's
- Setting: Yalta and Moscow
- Principal Characters: Dmitrii Dmitrich Gurov, Anna Sergeevna von Diederitz
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Guilt, Emotions, Adultery, Vacations, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Russia or Russian people, Moscow
- Locales: Moscow, Russia, Yalta, Ukraine
The Story
The story begins with a description of a bored banker, Dmitrii Gurov, on vacation in the southern Russian city of Yalta. Idly attentive toward the other vacationers, Gurov takes special interest in a recent arrival to the resort town, a young woman named Anna Sergeevna von Diederitz, who strolls along the embankment with her little dog. Judging from her appearance, Gurov decides that she is a married woman alone and bored on her vacation. Although he too is married, he has had many affairs, and he becomes excited by the prospect of having a brief affair with this...
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