GOOSEBERRIES by ANTON CHEKHOV
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Ivan Ivanovich tells his friends the story of his brother who, after working in a small office in the city for many years, finally bought an estate in the country, where his life changed- but did it change for the better?
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:30.1 | to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host to John |
| 0:34.1 | Haggadorn and today we present the third of the Little trilogy by Anton |
| 0:38.3 | Chekhov. Gooseberries is one of Anton Chekhov's most famous short stories. |
| 0:45.5 | Revisiting themes of class differences and social injustice, |
| 0:49.0 | the story describes the hypocrisy of rich landowners who ignore the sufferings of people less fortunate than themselves. |
| 0:55.7 | This story exploring the true meaning of happiness is part of a trilogy marked by the appearance of the two characters |
| 1:01.6 | Birken and Ivan Ivanovich. |
| 1:04.5 | The other two stories in the trilogy are The Man in a Case, which we just did last Sunday, |
| 1:09.4 | and About Love, which is easily found by searching our archives at |
| 1:12.6 | 1001 Classic Short Stories. |
| 1:15.4 | These three stories are sometimes referred to as |
| 1:17.8 | The Little Trilogy. |
| 1:19.4 | Gooseberries is the middle story. |
| 1:25.1 | The whole sky had been overcast with rain clouds from early morning. |
| 1:28.8 | It was a still day, not hot, but heavy, as it is in gray dull weather when the clouds have been hanging over the country for a long while, |
| 1:36.0 | when one expects rain, and it does not come. |
| 1:40.0 | Ivan Ivan Ivanovich, the veterinary surgeon, and Birken, the high school teacher, were already tired from walking, and the fields seemed to them, endless. |
| 1:49.0 | Far ahead of them, they could just see the windmills of the village of Mirinocz. |
| 1:54.6 | On the right stretched a row of hillocks which disappeared in the distance behind the village, |
| 1:58.8 | and they both knew that this was the bank of the river, that there were meadows, green willows, homesteads there, and that if |
| 2:05.8 | one stood on one of the hillocks, one could see from it the same vast plain, telegraph |
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