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...A great wall of fog advanced across San Pablo Bay to meet us, and in a few minutes the Reindeer was running blindly through the damp obscurity. Charley, who was steering, seemed to have an instinct for that kind of work. How he did it, he himself confessed that he did not know; but he had a way of calculating winds, currents, distance, time, drift, and sailing speed that was truly marvellous...

Dear Friends, Uncle Şerif, who cheerfully visits all around Turkey and gives speeches in Children Protection Institutions with ladybugs has now written a book for you. He had stories to tell. He knew that there were things we had to realize while growing up. He said, “Let there not be any children left that I have not met, let me touch them with my words and stories” Who will you meet while reading the book? The real ladybugs. If you wish, you could be a White Ladybug, too. You ask, how? By doing the favours Uncle Şerif suggests.

Before a week had passed, the place began to exert a weird fascination upon me. It is difficult to describe or to induce people to believe; but I felt as if the whole house was like a living organism slowly and imperceptibly digesting me by the action of some stupefying gastric juice. Perhaps the process had begun as soon as I set my foot in the house, but I distinctly remember the day on which I first was conscious of it.

The short story by Anton Chekhov published in 1889 tell the story of a bet between a banker and a young lawyer on whether a death sentence or a life in prison is better. At the end of the bet trying to measure the value of human life, the banker shall give two million rubles to the young lawyer if he lasts in prison for 15 years.

Mayer, a student of medicine and Ribnikov, a student in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, come to visit a law student Vassiliev one evening; and they insist that Vassiliev comes to S—V Street with them. Vassiliev who resists the idea for a while, decides to join the two friends after all. Chekhov tells the gripping story of these three young people.

Chekhov’s short story “Misfortune” was published in 1886. The story is about Sofia Petrovna the young wife of a country notary, trying to turn away a suitor and failing miserably. After her miserable attempts, she can no longer hide her desires and finds herself in the middle of an affair. Chekhov’s story filled with love and dilemmas is now on SesleKitap.

Olga is the perfect woman who was loved by all people around her. Yet, after several marriages and years, we start to see her true character. "The Darling" is a reflection of Chekhov’s criticism of women. He views women as having no intellectual lives, and he believes that their happiness depends on that of their husbands.

In “A Tedious Story”, Chekhov’s short story published in a Russian literature magazine in 1889, a dying physician’s last thought are told. It is also thought that for this story, Anton Chekhov was inspired by his own brother who died of tuberculosis. You can listen to such a unique story by Chekhov on SesleKitap.