Ariadne Anton Chekhov
Ariadne
- Authors
- Publisher
Travelling from Odessa and Sevastopol, the narrator on board the steamboat meets a man called Ivan Shamokhin, who tells him a story of his love for a woman named Ariadna Kotlovich. Initially he is just dazzled by her beauty, gracefulness, originality, wit and intelligence; to him she is an epitome of perfection. Gradually he comes to realize that there is vanity and coldness behind her shiny charisma. She loves seeing Shamokhin around, but only because the fact that a young man so attractive and virtuous is so obviously infatuated with her, gives her great pleasure. His attempts at escaping are all in vain: he is now totally under the spell of Ariadna…
© 2020 Interactive Media (Ebook): 9781787361263
Translators: Constance Garnett
Release date
Ebook: 20 January 2020
Other editions
Others also enjoyed ...
- Cards of Grief Jane Yolen
- The Book Of Saints and Heroes Andrew Lang
- Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation James A. Secord
- Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics Carol L. Flinders
- A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations May Sarton
- A Visual History of Caravans: Photographs from the 1920's to Modern Day Andrew Jenkinson
- Imagine There's No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World Mitchell Stephens
- Maud Stevens Wagner: "The Mona Lisa of American Tattoo" Alan Govenar
- The Sadness of Spirits: Stories Aimee Pogson
- Animals Erased: Discourse, Ecology, and Reconnection with the Natural World Arran Stibbe
- Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America Dana W. Logan
- The Ideal of Nature: Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment
- Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times Soong-Chan Rah
- Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene
- Still Frances Poet
- Battle in the Mind Fields John A. Goldsmith, Bernard Laks
- To the American Indian (Annotated): Enriched Edition. A Yurok Woman's Memoir of Native California Culture, Colonial Dispossession, and Indigenous Memory Lucy Thompson
- Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics Yunte Huang
- Sinopah the Indian Boy (Complete Edition) (Annotated): Enriched Edition. A Blackfeet Coming-of-Age Adventure of Plains Childhood, Buffalo Hunts, and Tribal Courage James Willard Schultz
- Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack Judah M. Cohen
- The Press and Slavery in America, 1791–1859: The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement Brian Gabrial
- The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life Shuly Rubin Schwartz
- The Synagogue in America: A Short History Marc Lee Raphael
- Hunts in Dreams Tom Drury
- Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil Daniel B. Sharp
- Abiding Grace: Time, Modernity, Death Mark C. Taylor
- Mrutyunjay Bhag 1 - Karn Shivaji Sawant
- Shriman Yogi Ranjit Desai
- URAKKAPPISHACH: ഉറക്കപ്പിശാച് S P SARATH
- October Junction Divya Prakash Dubey
- Yugandhar Shivaji Sawant
- Chhava Prakaran 1 Shivaji Sawant
- Kanthamalacharitham Vishnu M C
- Gunahon ka Devta Dharmveer Bharti
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling
- Francis Itticora T D Ramakrishnan
- Ravan Raja Rakshsancha Sharad Tandale
- Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life Francesc Miralles, Hector Garcia
- Lok Maze Sangati Sharad Pawar
- Bangarwadi Vyankatesh Madgulkar
- The Secret Rhonda Byrne
