Bibliograph

A nervous breakdown, Anton Chekhov

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A nervous breakdown, Anton Chekhov

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

A nervous breakdown

Medium

electronic resource

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Anton Chekhov

Summary

Three friends, Mayer (a medical student), Rybnikov (a student of the arts), and Cassilyev (a law student), decide to go out one night to get some girls. Mayer and Rybnikov had to spend some time convincing Cassilyev to come along, as he was far more fastidious and cautious than his friends. Cassilyev himself is envious of his friends, who live their lives in a much more carefree fashion. The three friends visit several different houses containing the girls, but Cassilyev finds himself more eager to talk to the girls and treat them to fancy drinks than to pay his money to get something more. He tries to understand the lives the fallen women are living, but he grows more and more disgusted with them. Upon returning home, he continues to think about such depressing lives and the next day his friends come to see him and discover that he is in the midst of a nervous breakdown

Target audience

adult

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