![]() ![]() At a party the banker hosted, he and other men discussed whether life in prison or capital punishment is more moral and humane. The story opens with an old banker recalling a bet he made with a young lawyer almost 15 years earlier. This guide refers to 52 Short-Stories: 1883-1898, a collection of Chekhov’s works translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Knopf, 2020). ![]() Chekov’s unnamed characters embark on a wager in which they each stand to lose a great deal. “The Bet” is a complex moral tale that follows a banker and a lawyer who enter a bet to prove their beliefs about which is worse, life in prison or the death penalty. Considered a master of short fiction and, along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, a founder of Modernist theater, Chekov is one of the late-19th-century writers who have reached 21st-century readers and audiences most powerfully and widely. ![]()
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