In one of this author's stories, the protagonist plans how to spend his winningswhen he finds that his lottery ticket has the correct series, but before he checks thenumber, becomes disgusted with his wife for joining him. One character in another ofhis stories shoots a gun twice in his garden to indicate that his associate had writtenimpeccably in (+) six languages. The protagonist of a third story attends an openingnight in a theater in the town of S to confront a mistress, (*) Anna von Diederitz, that he had met while on vacation at Yalta. This man wrote of a lawyer
In one of this author's stories, the protagonist plans how to spend his winningswhen he finds that his lottery ticket has the correct series, but before he checks thenumber, becomes disgusted with his wife for joining him. One character in another ofhis stories shoots a gun twice in his garden to indicate that his associate had writtenimpeccably in (+) six languages. The protagonist of a third story attends an openingnight in a theater in the town of S to confront a mistress, (*) Anna von Diederitz, that he had met while on vacation at Yalta. This man wrote of a lawyer who argues that life imprisonment and the death penalty are equally immoral and who renounces an award of two millions after fifteen years of solitary confinement. For ten points, name this author of Lady with a Lapdog and The Bet.
In one of this author's stories, the protagonist plans how to spend his winningswhen he finds that his lottery ticket has the correct series, but before he checks thenumber, becomes disgusted with his wife for joining him.
Anton Chekhov