Question

One of this author’s characters laments falling in love when “grey-haired” in a story that ends with the statement that “the hardest, the most complicated part was only (20[1])just beginning.” (20[5])That character created (20[1])by this author, who calls women “the lower race,” (20[1])goes to a provincial town abbreviated “S.” to attend an opening night of The Geisha. (20[3])In a story (20[1])by this (20[1])author, the protagonist has an affair with the wife of the official von (*) Dideritz, whom he met (10[1])in Yalta (10[2])while she was walking (10[3])a Pomeranian. (10[3]0[1])While himself (10[1])in Yalta, this author (10[1])wrote a play in which the servant Firs is (10[1])left behind (10[2])at an estate (10[2])which is (10[1])sold to (10[1])Lopakhin (“loh-PAHK-in”) by (10[1])Madame Ranevskaya (10[1])(“rah-nev-SKY-ah”). “The Lady with the Dog” is by, for 10 points, what playwright of The Cherry Orchard? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Anton Chekhov [or Anton Pavlovich Chekhov]
<Tora Husar, Literature - European - Short Fiction&gt; ~13593~ &lt;Editor: Joseph Krol>
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2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y3597%37%0%75.15

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