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What if a brief meeting by the sea makes your ordinary life impossible to return to?
In Anton Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories, small encounters carry deep emotional weight. At Yalta, Dmitri Gurov meets Anna Sergeyevna, a young married woman walking a small white dog. Both are tied to other lives. Their growing attachment unsettles what they expect from love and what they can bear to leave unchanged.
Around the title story, Chekhov gathers quiet portraits of longing and loneliness. The Darling follows Olenka, who takes on the opinions of those she loves. The Bishop centres on Pyotr, a tired churchman set apart by his rank. The Bet, Gooseberries, and Misery explore solitude, happiness, and the need for someone to hear our grief.
What you’ll discover
- Love beyond a holiday Walk beside Gurov and Anna as an unexpected attachment challenges their familiar lives.
- A heart shaped by others Meet Olenka, whose devotion raises uneasy questions about love and a self of her own.
- The distance of rank Follow Bishop Pyotr into the loneliness that his high position cannot ease.
- Happiness under question Let The Bet and Gooseberries unsettle easy ideas about solitude, life, and personal contentment.
- Someone to hear grief In Misery, a cab driver’s search for a listener makes loneliness painfully concrete.
Who will love it
If you love short stories about love, loneliness and small-town life, this collection is for you. Readers who enjoy sharp portraits of people and endings that stay in the mind will find a friend in Chekhov.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A holiday affair that will not end
- A rich girl's illness is really loneliness
- Suspicion falls on whoever has least power
- A good young doctor slowly turns into a miser
- A tyrant at the table hurts those he loves
- Genius and madness may feel the same
- First desire mixes bliss with shame
- A spy in a footman's coat
- One evening at the ball
- Chekhov shows lives and leaves the verdict to you
Who’s who
- Dmitri GurovA Moscow banker and unfaithful husband who meets a young woman at Yalta and slowly learns what love is.
- Anna SergeyevnaA shy young wife who goes to Yalta out of restlessness and cannot forgive herself for what follows.
- KorolyovA young Moscow doctor who sees the loneliness behind a rich girl's illness but cannot put his sympathy into words.
- Dmitri StartsevA country doctor who starts out idealistic, falls for a pianist, and slowly turns into a rich, short-tempered man.
- Andrey KovrinAn overworked scholar who meets a black monk who tells him he is among the chosen.
- VolodyaA shy seventeen-year-old who is ashamed of his mother and drawn to a married woman at a villa.
- Georgy OrlovA Petersburg official who mocks everything and wants only to avoid inconvenience, even in love.
- Zinaida FyodorovnaA young woman who leaves her husband for Orlov and hopes for a home and a life of ideas.
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The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
In Yalta, Gurov follows a lady with a small white dog and cannot shake her afterward.
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In short
A man sits in a pavilion at Yalta and watches a young woman walk the seafront with a small white dog. He is married and nearly forty, and he imagines a brief affair with a woman whose name he does not know.
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A holiday affair that will not end
At Yalta, Dmitri Gurov, a Moscow banker with a wife and three children, notices a young woman with a white Pomeranian. The town calls her the lady with the dog. He is afraid of his wife and has cheated on her for years. He begins a light conversation, and her name is Anna Sergeyevna. Within a week they are lovers.
Anna calls it a disaster and says she despises herself. Then a letter comes from her husband, and she leaves, telling Gurov they will never meet again.
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-lady-with-the-dog-and-other-stories.
Chekhov, A. P. (2026). The lady with the dog and other stories. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-lady-with-the-dog-and-other-stories
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-lady-with-the-dog-and-other-stories.
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What is The Lady with the Dog about?
It follows Dmitri Gurov, a married banker, and Anna Sergeyevna, a young wife he meets at Yalta. What begins as a casual summer affair slowly becomes the most serious thing in both their lives, and they must decide what to do.
Which stories are in The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories?
The book collects nine stories: The Lady with the Dog, A Doctor's Visit, An Upheaval, Ionitch, The Head of the Family, The Black Monk, Volodya, An Anonymous Story and The Husband.
Who is the black monk in The Black Monk?
He is a figure from an old legend who appears to the scholar Kovrin. Within the story he is both a mirage and a flattering voice that tells Kovrin he is among the chosen.
The author
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
1860–1904 · Russian playwright and story writer
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) was a Russian writer and physician. He was born in Taganrog and lived in Moscow and later Yalta. He wrote short stories and plays, including The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1897), and The Cherry Orchard (1904). He died in Badenweiler, Germany.
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