The Death of a Government Clerk

Anton Chekhov

29 pages 58-minute read

Anton Chekhov

The Death of a Government Clerk

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1883

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A simple sneeze at the opera becomes a nightmare of bureaucratic anxiety in Chekhov's darkly comic masterpiece. Test your understanding of how one government clerk's obsession with social status leads to his ultimate downfall.

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