"The Bet" is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other following a conversation about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. The banker wagers that the lawyer cannot remain in solitary confinement voluntarily for a period of fifteen years.
10 Great Russian Short Stories : Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Leonid Andreyev
Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Leonid Andreyev
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At Christmas Time and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov
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The Bet (Unabridged)
Anton Chekhov
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Fire in the Steppe
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Unabridged)
Lewis Carroll
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Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Unabridged)
Miguel de Cervantes
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The Deluge
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Gulliver's Travels (Unabridged)
Jonathan Swift
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Unabridged)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Unabridged)
Mark Twain
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A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel Garcίa Marquez and Mercedes Barcha
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A Modest Proposal
Dr. Jonathan Swift
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Gilgamesh : A New English Version
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The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
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