The Bet (A Short Story) by Anton Chekhov

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✅ Language - English

✅ Dimensions - 5.5 x 8.26 inches

✅ 16 Pages

✅ Summary -

The Bet by Anton Chekhov is a short story about a banker and a young lawyer who make a wager over whether solitary confinement is more humane than the death penalty. The lawyer agrees to spend fifteen years in isolation to win two million rubles. During his confinement, he immerses himself in books and gains profound wisdom, ultimately renouncing material wealth. The banker, ruined financially, plans to kill the lawyer to avoid paying, but discovers the lawyer has voluntarily abandoned the bet before the term ends