Stories in English

Deepak hated the stage but this Teachers Day it was all set to change. Dance away your fears: Deepak was reluctant to go to school, as the instructions from his class teacher rang in his mind. Yesterday, he had made it mandatory for all the students to participate in the Teachers Day celebrations. His mother sensed his fear and asked, …

Glory Of The National Flag: Minu, who studied in class 6th carrying her school bag on her back, entered with a long face in her house. Seeing her pale face, her mother asked – “What happened?” Minu replied in a low voice – “Tomorrow is Tanisha’s Birthday and she has invited me on her birthday party.” Glory Of The National Flag: …

The Day Mother Raised The Flag: On August 15, at the stroke of midnight, the Indian flag replaced the Union Jack of the British Empire. And millions of Indians went to sleep in a state of excitement. For, they would literally wake up in a free country. Among them was a five-year-old girl called Amrita Rangasami. She lived with four …

Happy Rainy Day: Sohini was extremely happy. She was jumping all around the house with excitement. She happily looked outside the window once more. The sky was covered with dark clouds and cool breeze was blowing gently. Sohini ran to her mother and said – “Can I wear my new raincoat? It is about to rain.” Mother laughingly said – …

The Greatest of These: Joseph Mills Hanson – Two cantankerous farmers sit in their small farmhouse on Christmas Eve, reliving fond childhood memories of the season. When they learn of a poor neighboring farmer whose family will do without this holiday, the two of them resolve to play Santa Claus in this charming story of friendship and good will. The …

Friend Who Came From The Sky: It was one of those days in March, when a wind starts blowing from nowhere, ending in a thunderstorm. A cool breeze had been blowing since afternoon, and the sky was rapidly becoming over-cast. There were sudden creaks as little branches of trees broke in the strong breeze and fell. The air was full …

A Misfortune: Anton Chekhov – Sofya Petrovna, the wife of Lubyantsev the notary, a handsome young woman of five-and-twenty, was walking slowly along a track that had been cleared in the wood, with Ilyin, a lawyer who was spending the summer in the neighbourhood. It was five o’clock in the evening. Feathery-white masses of cloud stood overhead; patches of bright …

Typhus: Short story by Anton Chekhov – A YOUNG lieutenant called Klimov was travelling from Petersburg to Moscow in a smoking carriage of the mail train. Opposite him was sitting an elderly man with a shaven face like a sea captain’s, by all appearances a well-to-do Finn or Swede. He pulled at his pipe the whole journey and kept talking …

Terror: My Friend’s Story – Anton Chekhov: DMITRI PETROVITCH SILIN had taken his degree and entered the government service in Petersburg, but at thirty he gave up his post and went in for agriculture. His farming was fairly successful, and yet it always seemed to me that he was not in his proper place, and that he would do well …

A Trivial Incident: Story by Anton Chekhov – It was a sunny August midday as, in company with a Russian prince who had come down in the world, I drove into the immense so-called Shabelsky pine-forest where we were intending to look for woodcocks. In virtue of the part he plays in this story my poor prince deserves a detailed …