Kevin's Watch

And it is what it should be

As for the work, the plot is right above in the previous clues. Though there's also such a hint:

Effaeldm wrote:The other person mentioned wasn't a brother and wasn't interested in the woman, though he did disapprove and did intend to kill

What exactly could this character do?

I know nothing at all about Chekhov other than his gun.

Well, looks not easy, how else can I hint if apparently the people here happened to not even know the book? Time for Google again I'm afraid.

Effaeldm wrote:

Effaeldm wrote:The other person mentioned wasn't a brother and wasn't interested in the woman, though he did disapprove and did intend to kill

What exactly could this character do?

The key word of the reply to this is the title.

Or you can go the IMDB way, the most recent adaptation stars an actor who takes roles in adaptations of great works of literature quite regularly - Arthur Conan Doyle, Daphne du Maurier.

It's not like I tasked you with something that obscure and hard to find, it has a separate article on Wikipedia - how many books have their own? And linked in the list on Chekhov's main page - only 17 of his works have those, the title is easy to guess even without opening the articles themselves.

Is it really? Or do you just already know what you're looking for?

The Duel by Chekhov?

Absolutely right

I'm Murrin wrote:Is it really? Or do you just already know what you're looking for?

Effaeldm wrote:

Effaeldm wrote:The other person mentioned wasn't a brother and wasn't interested in the woman, though he did disapprove and did intend to kill

What exactly could this character do?

Well, I guess The Duel is a more likely variant when one person wants to kill another one, at least more likely than something like On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco, A Marriage Proposal or The Cherry Orchard

It wasn't how it ended up with a duel, it was what people were before it and after it that was so unusual and meant so much.

To be fair, I did click on The Duel on the wiki list. But when I saw it didn't lead to a wiki page with a plot description (instead it's the full text), I figured it would unreasonable to expect anyone to connect the dots to that particular one, so left it.

You've broken the wiki? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duel_%28Chekhov_story%29

OK, a nice easy one after that marathon

A man is wrongly imprisoned and plots revenge on his imprisoners.

This book had a profound affect on me when I read it as a teenager.

The Count of Monte Cristo!

Ding ding! We have a winner!

You're up, Iolanthe!

Thanks Stevie.

This book is by perhaps the most famous English Victorian author, but probably one of his less well known novels. I didn't read it until a couple of years ago but found it absolutely captivating.

Starts at an inn in Chigwell, Essex (know it well, used to go camping with the Guides there!), but is mainly set in Clerkenwell just outside London. Features the Gordon Riots, a couple of murders and hangings, then back to Chigwell. Set in the latter half of the 18th century.

Iolanthe wrote:Thanks Stevie.

This book is by perhaps the most famous English Victorian author, but probably one of his less well known novels. I didn't read it until a couple of years ago but found it absolutely captivating.

Starts at an inn in Chigwell, Essex (know it well, used to go camping with the Guides there!), but is mainly set in Clerkenwell just outside London. Features the Gordon Riots, a couple of murders and hangings, then back to Chigwell. Set in the latter half of the 18th century.

Is there a pet blackbird or jackdaw or raven or somesuch in it?

Clever boy! Grip was its name.

Effaeldm wrote:You've broken the wiki? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duel_%28Chekhov_story%29

Go to the "Chekhov bibliography" page (linked from his main page), and lcick on "The Duel". You get this - a Wikisource page, not a wikipedia article.

Iolanthe wrote:Clever boy! Grip was its name.

Then I refuse to win. I hate him. [the author, not Grip].

Edited to add: HEH! that I hate him is actually a clue for the hypothetical person, who may well be real, who reads and remembers stuff I stay!!

I hated him too, once. My interest was stirred by one particular television version of one of his books. I bought the book, then another - and then found that my husband had brought this particular one with him when we married and I'd never noticed it!

Iolanthe wrote:and then found that my husband had brought this particular one with him when we married and I'd never noticed it!

your husband is weird.
your husband's wife is, by all evidence, not at all observant.
[I say that in the most affectionate way possible about the spouse of a nearly total stranger, who is [the spouse] a literally total stranger, barring that I now know said spouse has an evolving literary relationship with a poster I nearly completely don't know as well, other than public correspondence.]
that is a bad-writing-contest-like clue, if one will ignore the flamboyant rhetorical flourishes and allusions to distantly related allegorical and, or, apocryphal references that please the critics by providing materials to critique while amazing the ordinary reader..

Though to catch your drift I'm striving,
It is shady — it is shady;
I don't see at what you're driving,
Mystic man — mystic man. (words changed!)