Fairy Tales for Adults, Volume 10

The theme of romance continues in this volume and begins with iconic ‘The Lady with the Dog’ by Anton Chekhov. Set in Yalta, Crimea, appears at first as a holiday romance. Gurov is a married man but he holidays on his own and has a history of holiday affairs. He meets the lady of the story’s title with her Pomeranian dog. But Chekhov’s love stories are not romantic accounts of unrequited love or of love at first sight. Or, even of tortured love that is amplified by the agony of being unfulfilled. No, these are Chekhovian tales that surprise and intrigue our imagination. In the second part of this volume we continues to a more familiar ground of Shakespearian love in his masterpiece ‘King Lear’. Read in English, unabridged.

Selected quotes

“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people—always slow to move and irresolute—every intimacy, which at first so agreeably diversifies life and appears a light and charming adventure, inevitably grows into a regular problem of extreme intricacy, and in the long run the situation becomes unbearable. But at every fresh meeting with an interesting woman this experience seemed to slip out of his memory, and he was eager for life, and everything seemed simple and amusing.”  — The Lady with The Dog, Anton Chekhov

“Goneril, who was really a very wicked woman, and did not love her father at all, said she loved him more than words could say; she loved him dearer than eyesight, space or liberty, more than life, grace, health, beauty, and honour.” — King Lear, William Shakespeare

Fairy Tales for Adults (Ideas for Life) Volume 10 by Anton Chekhov, ISBN: 9781787244641, Sovereign, MP3 Audio Book Download AUDIBLE, SCRIBD, LIBRO FM

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