Tales of Chekhov

12 primary works

Love and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 12 October 2007

The Bishop and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 15 May 2009

The Chorus Girl and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 7 July 2014

The Cook´s Wedding and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 17 June 2004

The Cook's Wedding -- Sleepy Children -- The Runaway -- Grisha -- Oysters -- Home -- A Classical Student -- Vanka -- An Incident -- A Day In The Country -- Boys -- Shrove Tuesday -- The Old House -- In Passion Week -- Whitebrow -- Kashtanka -- A Chameleon -- The Dependents -- Who Was To Blame? -- The Bird Market -- An Adventure -- The Fish -- Art -- The Swedish Match

The Darling and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 1 November 2010

The Duel and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 24 December 2007

A group of ex-Muscovites are living in the hot and humid Caucasus. Among them are Laevsky, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, Von Koren, Samoylenko, and a deacon. Laevsky and Nadyezhda are lovers. They came to the town to flee Nadyezhda's husband and to live together in their own home. Instead, they remain in rented rooms. Laevsky drinks, gambles, and blankly performs the few tasks necessary in his government job. He spends much of his time figuring out how to get away from Nadyezhda, whom he has grown to hate. Nadyezhda herself is bored and has affairs.

The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 28 January 2008

The Party and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 6 December 2007

The Schoolmaster and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 17 June 2004

The Wife and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 5 September 2003

YEVGRAF IVANOVITCH SHIRYAEV, a small farmer, whose father, a parish priest, now deceased, had received a gift of three hundred acres of land from Madame Kuvshinnikov, a general's widow, was standing in a corner before a copper washing-stand, washing his hands. As usual, his face looked anxious and ill-humoured, and his beard was uncombed. "What weather!" he said. "It's not weather, but a curse laid upon us. It's raining again!" He grumbled on, while his family sat waiting at table for him to have finished washing his hands before beginning dinner. Fedosya Semyonovna, his wife, his son Pyotr, a student, his eldest daughter Varvara, and three small boys, had been sitting waiting a long time. The boys-Kolka, Vanka, and Arhipka-grubby, snub-nosed little fellows with chubby faces and tousled hair that wanted cutting, moved their chairs impatiently, while their elders sat without stirring, and apparently did not care whether they ate their dinner or waited...As though trying their patience, ...

The Witch and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 14 December 2012

IN the village of Reybuzh, just facing the church, stands a two-storeyed house with a stone foundation and an iron roof. In the lower storey the owner himself, Filip Ivanov Kashin, nicknamed Dyudya, lives with his family, and on the upper floor, where it is apt to be very hot in summer and very cold in winter, they put up government officials, merchants, or landowners, who chance to be travelling that way. Dyudya rents some bits of land, keeps a tavern on the highroad, does a trade in tar, honey, cattle, and jackdaws, and has already something like eight thousand roubles put by in the bank in the town. His elder son, Fyodor, is head engineer in the factory, and, as the peasants say of him, he has risen so high in the world that he is quite out of reach now. Fyodor's wife, Sofya, a plain, ailing woman, lives at home at her father-in-law's. She is for ever crying, and every Sunday she goes over to the hospital for medicine. Dyudya's second son, the hunchback Alyoshka, is living at ...

The Horse Stealers and Other Stories

by Anton Chekhov

Published 17 June 2004