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by Anton Chekhov
Short Story Psychological Fiction Realist Fiction Duality of Human Nature Conflict Morality and Immorality Isolation Self-discovery
The Duel is a novella by Anton Chekhov originally published in 1891.
The novel begins with Ivan Andreitch Laevsky, a Russian aristocrat who ran away with a married woman - Nadezhda Fyodorovna. The problem is that she has affairs with other men and he thinks of leaving her.
He receives a letter informing him that her husband has died but he does not tell her, since he thinks it would be an invitation to marry him.
Laevsky is friends with a doctor named Alexander Daviditch Samoylenko, who urges Laevsky to marry Nadezhda. Laevsky says he can't get married because he's not in love but he can't leave her either since she has no family or money and depends on him to survive. Samoylenko tells him to give him enough money to live on. Laevsky, however, says that he has a debt of 2000 rubles and that he cannot afford to do it...
To create this digital edition of the book we have used Constance Garnett's translation.
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WHY READ THE DUEL IN 2025?
134 years later, still timelyChekhov compresses jealousy, pride, and ethics into a taut argument that refuses melodrama. Every character is smart enough to be dangerous, and the setting amplifies moral weather. It is a clinic in how people rationalize harm.
Conflict escalates quickly online and off. This novella models de-escalation, accountability, and the courage to puncture rituals of honor.
Honor examined
Tradition weighed against sense.
Empathy muscles
Understand before condemning.
Self-deception
Catch the lies we tell ourselves.
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Short forms of human truth; restraint detail and sudden light.
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