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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 388: Five short stories by Anton Checkov
Description: In another episode of "shortcut to the classics," P&C plus special guest Longinus review a few short stories by Anton Checkov (starting at 3:25).
After a quick review of his life, they review and discuss five short stories.
The Black Monk is a story about Andrei Kovrin, an intellectual who experiences a mental breakdown that leads to hallucinations of a black monk.
In The House with the Mezzanine a young painter becomes enamored of two temperamentally different sisters during his stay at a country house.
The Peasants explores the harsh reality...