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"A Story Without a Title" is an 1888 humorous story by Anton Chekhov. In a remote 5th century monastery the monks live and toil, led by an elderly abbot. The old man likes to play the organ, write music and compose Latin verses but is famous most of all for his eloquence and fiery, inspirational monologues which leave everybody around him enchanted. Then one night a drunkard knocks the door of the gates, saying he'd got lost on his way and asking them to give him food and wine.

"A Happy Man" is a very funny and satiric story that tells us that happiness is easy and everything is in our hands. The action happens in the passenger train. One man tries to find his carriage, opening doors and saying "No, wrong again!" every time he misses. But suddenly he hears his name "Ivan Alexyevitch! What brings you here? Is it you?" It was his good mate Pyotr Petrovitch. They start chatting and Pyotr Petrovitch finds out that Ivan Alexyevitch has been married that day and he is coming straight away after the wedding.

In the story, "An Avenger", Anton Chekhov, explores the themes of infidelity, trust, revenge, shame and pride. Fyodor Sigaev catches his wife being unfaithful to him red-handed. He finds himself angry and outraged at a gun shop where he has thoughts of killing his wife, her lover and himself.

"The noble father and simpleton Shchiptsov, a tall, stocky old man, famous not so much for his stage talents as for his extraordinary physical strength, had a huge fight with the manager during the performance and in the midst of the swearing suddenly felt that something had snapped in his chest..

"The Horse-Stealers" - a story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Written in 1890, first published in the magazine "New Time" No. 5061, April 1, 1890, signed Anton Chekhov.

The story was written during Chekhov's stay in Nice. It was first published on November 2, 1897, in issue No. 303 of Russkikh Vedomosti. Chekhov later included an edited version of the story in the ninth volume of his collection of works, published by Adolf Marx in 1899-1901.

"A Troublesome Visitor" is a story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Written in 1886, first published in 1886 in the Petersburg Newspaper No. 190 dated July 14, signed by A. Chekhonte.

"Defenceless Creature" - a story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Written in 1887, first published on February 28, 1887 in the magazine Oskolki. The story describes with irony a stubborn man who achieves his goals by relying on the pity of those around him.

When several employees of the bank are arrested for corruption, the merchant Avdeyev doesn't give the ordeal much thought, figuring the men going to jail deserve it. His opinion changes however when he returns home to find his wife and son very upset - his house had just been searched by officials in connection to the bank corruption. Avdeyev had signed papers for the bankers without knowing what they were and so had essentially signed his life away by his carelessness. During the following trial, he learns the danger of being a "sheep" and just following along without a mind of his own.

The First Lover is a famous story by Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The main character, Evgeny Alekseevich Podzharov, tells the guests a story about his love adventure. However, the story causes slight bewilderment and makes one of the listeners blush.

In Old Age by Anton Chekhov we have the theme of change, loss, renewal, memories, guilt and despair. Taken from his The Complete Stories collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and very early on in the story the reader realises that Chekhov may be exploring the theme of change. Since Uzelkov has returned to his hometown he cannot imagine the differences the town has undertaken. It is not the place that he has left and there is a sense of modernity. Even the old waiter cannot remember the parts of the town that Uzelkov can.

The Looking Glass is a short story by Anton Chekhov about a young woman named Nellie who is sitting in her room and staring into a mirror. Nellie is dreamy and lost in thoughts of her future and the man she loves. As she stares into the mirror, she sees the reflection of her future husband and begins to imagine her life with him. Suddenly, Nellie's dream is interrupted by a crisis. Her husband is ill and Nellie rushes to the doctor's house for help.

Bears of Bray: What Makes Yellow Snow? Meet Charlie Bear and Toby the Dog in this charming new book from the BEARS OF BRAY. Charlie the bear and his dog Toby come across a mysterious patch of yellow snow. They have never seen yellow snow before. They go on a quest to find out what has made the snow yellow.

Jack and Luke Glasser successfully survived the Organization's first attempt, but the Organization isn't going away. Neither is the unique virus created by a rogue Organization member to orchestrate a food blight for a large, multinational agricultural company, so they could own the cure. The only problem is that there is no cure. With the virus creator dead, the Glasser Brothers struggle to harness their newfound "gifts" to stay a step ahead of Draper's girl while finding and eradicating a novel virus that's infected Luke.

Waiting to die in a remote Canadian cannabis facility wasn't exactly how Jack Glasser expected to go out. Having survived a yearlong coma and a bizarre Neural Acceleration experiment, a quick and easy consulting job for GreenLeaf Cannabis seemed like a no-brainer. Now his only hope rests on his computer-like mind and his brother, Luke, a serial gambler whose main talent is burning through jet fuel and expensive bourbon. 

At the heart of Oxford University life, the Bodleian Library is one of the oldest working libraries in Europe with some of its reading rooms - the medieval Duke Humfrey’s Library and the circular Radcliffe Camera - immortalised in films, including The Golden Compass the Harry Potter franchise. With access to priceless archives including Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons, this documentary reveals how the Elizabethan diplomat Sir Thomas Bodley created this extraordinary library and how it flourishes as a modern institution.

When you take the time to plan something with your own hands, it lands holiness to the dinner. It will make you want to spend time savoring it with your family as opposed to merely snarfing it down on your way out the door to soccer practice. Viewing nourishment this way, its preparation, and its utilization, you can make some practical enchantment at its simplest level.

If you are feeling lost, with no direction and just don’t seem to be getting anywhere with your life and you don’t know what to do, maybe you need to look at taking a fresh approach at how you are going through life. This book will help you with anything that involves your transformation as a person. It means becoming the best you can be and reaching towards your potential. When you become a ‘better’ person than you were yesterday your life and it’s circumstances improve. This is usually achieved by looking internally and then changing the way you act externally.

Through the concept of theosophy and anthroposophy, Akashic records are the collections of all human activities, ideas, imaginations, emotions, thoughts, and decisions that have happened in the past, the ones happening at the moment, and the future events. The Akashic records are like a big library in the sky that your spirit stores its information in. Is this not amazing? It has revealed that certain classes of beings can manipulate the Akashic records. The information held in those records is not infallible or secure.

In a matter of months, a series of crises entered the world of a successful advertising agency executive that would alter his life forever. These life-changing events led him to discover wrong priorities about money and how many people erroneously view money.