{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d84","title":"The Bet","publish_year":1889,"author":"Anton Chekhov","code":"the-bet","words":2856,"image":"party.jpg","image_alt":"Several wine glasses being clinked together. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary","quirky"],"blurb":"“Capital punishment kills a man at once, but lifelong imprisonment kills him slowly. Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years?”","description":"A young lawyer bets an older banker that he could voluntarily last in solitary confinement for fifteen years. The banker agrees to the bet, saying he won’t last more than three or four years.","rating":2,"original_language":"Russian","translators":["Constance Garnett"],"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}