The Proposal Author:Anton Chekhov

(1889) Translated and with an Introduction by Julius West CHARACTERS STEPAN STEPANOVITCH CHUBUKOV, a landowner NATALYA STEPANOVNA, his daughter, twenty-five years old IVAN VASSILEVITCH LOMOV, a neighbour of Chubukov, a large and hearty, but very suspicious landowner. The scene is laid at CHUBUKOV's country-house