As the title may suggest, this book contains three gripping stories by Anton Chekhov.In "The Misfortune", Chekhov tells about the love of Sofya and Ilyin. "The Darling" is about the life of awoman named Olenka. She goes through many things and finds true love at the end. "The Bet" is about aman who makes an interesting bet with a rich man and locks himself in a room for ten years.Dorlion Readers (Stage 1)Dorlion Readers is a series of retold and simplified stories which are classifed into 4 stages, each stageconsists of 10 story books, in accordance with their degrees of difficulty. The selected stories are chosenamong the wold-wide known fairy tales, mythological narratives and short stories of famous authors.This series provides students and english learners of all ages with reading materials which help them improvetheir reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. Each book has its own extensive exercises and dictionary.