When the protagonist of this work tries to confide in a member of the doctors' club, the official merely replies: "You were right this evening: the sturgeon was a bit too strong!" The main character occasionally refers to women as "the lower race" and is sick of his wife, who uses "phonetic spelling". The two primary characters are reunited at a provincial performance of The Geisha. The title character of this story asserts her husband is Russian Orthodox even though his name is Von Diderits aft
When the protagonist of this work tries to confide in a member of the doctors' club, the official merely replies: "You were right this evening: the sturgeon was a bit too strong!" The main character occasionally refers to women as "the lower race" and is sick of his wife, who uses "phonetic spelling". The two primary characters are reunited at a provincial performance of The Geisha. The title character of this story asserts her husband is Russian Orthodox even though his name is Von Diderits after she starts seeing a man she first met in Yalta. For 10 points, name this short story by Anton Chekhov in which Dmitri Gurov has an affair with Anna Sergeyevna, who is sometimes accompanied by her Pomeranian.
When the protagonist of this work tries to confide in a member of the doctors' club, the official merely replies: "You were right this evening: the sturgeon was a bit too strong!"
"The Lady with the Dog" [or "Dama s sobachkoy" [accept reasonable variants for the translated title]