Increasingly obsessed by Anna Sergeyevna, Gurov travels to her hometown under the cover of a supposed business trip to Petersburg. 

Free illustrated transcript:  ⁠https://tinyurl.com/3wu6kbaz
Read the complete original story at Project Gutenberg: https://tinyurl.com/ycxactya⁠.

Nabokov called The Lady with the Little Dog (1899) "One of the greatest short stories ever written". My adaptation stays very close to the original Constance Garnett translation and the  original four part structure (I-IV) . 

Changes are mostly for length and the clarity of the storyline. For more on some of the social nuances - Anna's dismissal of her husband as a ‘lackey’ for example - I would advise going onto the original text: https://tinyurl.com/ycxactya⁠.

Lady with Little Dog by Anton Chekhov - Part 3

Kieran Mcgovern Reading)