25 pages 50-minute read

Anton Chekhov

The Bet

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1889

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A banker and a lawyer enter a wager that will test the very meaning of life, death, and human knowledge over the course of fifteen long years. Can you unravel the philosophical depths and moral complexities of Chekhov's masterful tale of confinement and freedom?

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