THREE o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking in at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy!’My whole being from head to heels is bursting with a strange, incomprehensible feeling. I can’t analyse it just now—I haven’t the time, I’m too lazy, and there—hang analysis! Why, is a man likely to interpret his sensations when he is flying head foremost from a belfry, or has just learned that he has won two hundred thousand? Is he in a state to do it?’This was more or less how I began my love-letter to Sasha, a girl of nineteen with whom I had fallen in love. I began it five times, and as often tore up the sheets, scratched out whole pages, and copied it all over again. I spent as long over the letter as if it had been a novel I had to write to order. And it was not because I tried to make it longer, more elaborate, and more fervent, but because I wanted endlessly to prolong the process of this writing, …
Anton Tchekhov
Love and Other Stories [EPUB ebook]
Love and Other Stories [EPUB ebook]
Köp den här e-boken och få 1 till GRATIS!
Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 166 ● ISBN 9781456617660 ● Filstorlek 0.7 MB ● Utgivare eBookIt.com ● Publicerad 2013 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6714436 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
Kräver en DRM-kapabel e-läsare