{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d86","title":"The Orator","publish_year":1897,"author":"Anton Chekhov","code":"the-orator","words":1252,"image":"grave.jpg","image_alt":"A gravestone. Graphite filter.","genres":["quirky"],"blurb":"“Put on your hat and coat this minute and come along. One of our fellows is dead, we are just sending him off to the other world, so you must do a bit of palavering by way of farewell to him. . .”","description":"Grigory, renowned for his moving speeches at weddings and funerals, is asked with haste to help out at a funeral that needs a good speaker. Grigory agrees and improvises a marvellous speech at the funeral, only to realise he messed up one small detail...","rating":4,"original_language":"Russian","translators":["Constance Garnett"],"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"fifteen-minute-stories","title":"15 Minute Stories","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"quirky","title":"Best of Quirky","collection_type":"genre"}]}