The Lady with the Dog
Complete textWhile staying in Yalta, Gurov becomes interested in Anna Sergeyevna, a married woman seen walking with a little dog. Their acquaintance initially resembles an affair he thinks he understands. Returning to ordinary life complicates that confidence as the connection refuses to remain confined to the holiday.
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The narration follows a man whose habitual account of women does not adequately explain his own changing experience. Travel separates public routines from private feeling without providing an easy way to reconcile them. Notice the discrepancy between what appears ordinary to onlookers and what the characters experience as decisive, especially when familiar settings become newly strange.
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Watch Gurov’s familiar explanations fail as a holiday attachment changes his experience of ordinary life and private feeling.
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Author: Anton Chekhov. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.
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IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verney's pavilion, he saw, walking on the sea-front, a fair-haired young lady of medium height, wearing a béret; a white Pomeranian dog was running behind her.
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