Gone Astray
Author: Anton Chekhov
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Languages: RU, English
Genre: Adventure, Satire, Short story
Free to read
Two tipsy lawyers mistake a stranger’s cottage for their own and turn a nighttime error into a noisy uproar.
Characters
- Kozyavkin — lawyer: A tipsy, self-assured summer resident.
- Laev — Kozyavkin’s companion: A weary companion longing for bed and water.
- Verotchka (Vera Stepanovna) — Kozyavkin’s wife: The wife the men believe they are coming home to.
- the cottage owner — the owner of the cottage full of fowls: Speaking in a husky bass, he demands redress for his scattered fowls and smashed eggs.
- the woman in a red apron — a resident of the cottage: She comes out to the noise with a lantern and questions the dozing Laev.