They agreed to a bet: if the lawyer could spend fifteen years in total isolation, the banker would pay him two million rubles. Guests at a party that he was hosting that day fell into a discussion of capital punishment the banker viewed it as more humane than life imprisonment, while a young lawyer disagreed, insisting that he would choose life in prison rather than death. Chekhov explained the reason for the omission in 1903: "As I was reading the proofs, I came to dislike the end, it occurred to me that it was too cold and cruel." Plot Īs the story opens, a banker recalls the occasion of a bet he had made fifteen years before. With a new title, "The Bet", revised and cut with part 3 of the original text now gone, it was included in Volume 4 of Chekhov's Collected Works, published in 1899–1901 by Adolf Marks. 4613 issue of Novoye Vremya, titled "Fairytale" (Сказка). ĭivided into three parts, it appeared in the 1 January 1889, No. Promising to produce a similar kind of fable for Suvorin before New Year's Eve, Chekhov began writing 22 December and on the 30th sent the story by post. Learning that Chekhov's "The Cobbler and the Devil" was to be published on 25 December, Alexey Suvorin, the Novoye Vremya 's editor, took offense. On 17 December 1888 Nikolai Khudekov, editor of the Peterburgskaya Gazeta, asked Chekhov to write a story for the newspaper. The banker wagers that the lawyer cannot remain in solitary confinement voluntarily for a period of fifteen years. " The Bet" ( Russian: "Пари", romanized: Pari) is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other following a conversation about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison.
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