A fluent book that can be read during the semester break, the collection of stories by Anton Chekhov, the world-famous Russian playwright and the number one writer of situation storytelling, tells in a timeless style about the aspects of human beings that do not change over time. Before the October Revolution, during the last struggles of Tsarist Russia, it is the last story that gives its name to the book, which sadly describes the gap between the corrupt aristocracy and the lower class.