EASTER EVE by ANTON CHEKHOV
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 30 March 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and stories entails this is your host John |
| 0:34.6 | Haggadorn I thought it might be appropriate as we celebrate Easter to give you an |
| 0:39.7 | Anton Chekhov story story titled Easter Eve. |
| 0:42.9 | There's no real drama here, |
| 0:44.6 | and it's not really an Easter story. |
| 0:46.7 | But it is an excellent example of what a great writer Anton Chekhov was. |
| 0:51.6 | He gives us an unknown narrator who has to take a fairy across a river to get to the church where Easter Eve is being observed. |
| 0:59.0 | With great joy, by the as a mystic, reminded of the mythological figure Sharon who ferries the souls of the dead across |
| 1:16.2 | the river sticks. In addition to symbolism, checkoff's use of light and dark imagery will be evident to you as you can picture in your |
| 1:24.9 | mind the scene as witnessed from the fairy and even place yourself as the |
| 1:29.1 | narrator. It's a skillfully written short story and one to be remembered not for its action or any special |
| 1:36.8 | twist but for its rich imagery. |
| 1:39.9 | Then now Easter Eve by Anton Chekhov. |
| 1:44.9 | I was standing on the bank of the river Goldfah, |
| 1:47.7 | waiting for the ferry boat from the other side. |
| 1:50.7 | At ordinary times, the Goldfah is a humble stream of moderate size, silent and |
| 1:56.1 | pensive, gently glimmering from behind thick reeds, but now a regular lake lay stretched |
| 2:02.1 | out before me. |
| 2:04.0 | The waters of spring, running riot, had overflowed both banks |
| 2:08.3 | and flooded both sides of the river for a long distance, |
| 2:11.8 | submerging vegetable gardens, hayfields, and marshes, so that it was no unusual |
| 2:16.7 | thing to meet poplars and bushes sticking out above the surface of the water and looking |
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