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Anton Chekhov's story "Home" is actually a story about a father's love for his son. Here is the paragraph in which the father, lawyer Yevgeny Petrovitch Bykovsky tells his son that he has been...

Yevgeny's problem is that his seven-year-old son has been caught smoking by the governess, and, what's more, the son actually stole the tobacco from Yevgeny's desk. Yevgeny's wife, the boy's...

These elements in the story, in my view, probably don’t actually have any special symbolism attached to them. They are, rather, mainly a sort of background “noise” that forms part of the ambience...

Yevgeny Petrovich makes his point by telling his son Seryozha a story about an emperor whose son died of consumption (tuberculosis) from smoking. He has been trying to impress upon his son, in...

Judge Bykovsky has quite a tolerant view of this particular vice. Although he understands why the governess is so concerned at catching Seryozha smoking, he nonetheless finds it rather amusing to...