Bet and Other Stories

Unique ElementsAbout the AuthorAbout the TranslatorA Literary Classic by ANTON CHEKHOV.

The Bet and Other Stories by RUSSIAN author ANTON CHEKHOV is a collection of short stories first published in 1899 in RUSSIA.The title story of this collection, "e;The Bet,"e; tells of a banker and a lawyer who, while debating the merits of capital punishment or life imprisonment, enter into a strange contractual arrangement.

The banker will pay $2 million if the lawyer can endure 15 years of imprisonment, and the banker is the jailer.

Sneak Peak"e;I don't agree with you,"e; said the host. "e;I myself have experienced neither capital punishment nor life-imprisonment, but if one may judge a priori, then in my opinion capital punishment is more moral and more humane than imprisonment.

Execution kills instantly, life-imprisonment kills by degrees.

Who is the more humane executioner, one who kills you in a few seconds or one who draws the life out of you incessantly, for years?"e;SynopsisAnton Chekhov (1860-1904), a Russian playwright and short story writer, is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time.

He was a key figure of early modernism in the theatre and also wrote hundreds of short stories, while working in his profession as a medical doctor. Title DetailsTranslation by Constance C. Garnett, 1901Short stories