# The Duel

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- Book: [The Duel](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-chekhov/the-duel) ([The Duel.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-chekhov/the-duel.md))
- Authors: [Anton Chekhov](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-chekhov), [Margarita Shalina](https://www.bookquiver.com/margarita-shalina), [Aleksandar Hemon](https://www.bookquiver.com/aleksandar-hemon), [Constance Garnett](https://www.bookquiver.com/constance-garnett)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-08-1297-008-1
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2003-10-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

First published in 1891, this morality tale pits a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician against one another in a verbal battle of wits and ethics that explodes into a...