"One of the greatest short stories ever written" Vladimir Nabokov
The opening of Chekhov's The Lady with the Little Dog (1899), abridged for audio.

Nearly forty Dmitri Gurov has a successful career and a young family. but is bored and dissatisfied. Holidaying alone, he meets a mysterious young woman - 'the lady with the little dog'  

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

My adaptation stays very close to the original Constance Garnett translation  —  which is divided into four sections. Changes are mostly for length and clarity.

In this section I have changed Gurov's infamous phrase ''an inferior race' to 'an inferior sex', as that is what is meant in context.

The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov - Part 1

Kieran Mcgovern Reading)