"At the Barber's", by Anton Chekhov | Read by Naya Nomikou | YouTube Storytime

"At the Barber's" is a short story written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Антон Павлович Чехов), a Russian playwright and short-story writer.
The story unfolds in Makar Kuzmitch's tiny, filthy barbershop. Erast Ivanitch, an elderly guy, shows up for a haircut. Erast Ivanitch remarks in passing that his daughter Anna is getting married as he shaves. Makar is astonished because he had planned to pop the question and is in love with Anna.
Makar's feelings are disregarded by Erast Ivanitch because of his poor social standing and lack of resources. Makar is upset and brokenhearted. Upon leaving, Erast Ivanitch has half of his head shaved since he is unable to complete the haircut.
Dive into Chekhov's poignant tale 'At the Barber's' where love, betrayal, and class collide in a small shop, revealing human complexities.
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Εxcerpt: The barber's shop is small, narrow, and unclean. The log walls are hung with paper suggestive of a cabman's faded shirt. Between the two dingy, perspiring windows there is a thin, creaking, rickety door, above it, green from the damp, a bell which trembles and gives a sickly ring of itself without provocation. Glance into the looking-glass which hangs on one of the walls, and it distorts your countenance in all directions in the most merciless way! The shaving and haircutting is done before this looking-glass. On the little table, as greasy and unwashed as Makar Kuzmitch himself, there is everything: combs, scissors, razors, a ha'porth of wax for the moustache, a ha'porth of powder, a ha'porth of much watered eau de Cologne, and indeed the whole barber's shop is not worth more than fifteen kopecks.
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The work of Anton Chekhov, translated in English by Constance Garnett, is on the public domain.
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Thumbnail picture of Chekhov, on the public domain,
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Subtitles in English and Greek.
Original Greek Subtitling by Naya Nomikou.
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Attributions:
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