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Short Fiction
Chapters (192)
- A Living Chattel 0:00
- Joy 1:31:28
- At the Barber’s 1:36:06
- An Enigmatic Nature 1:44:23
- A Classical Student 1:50:33
- The Death of a Government Clerk 1:57:55
- A Daughter of Albion 2:04:29
- The Trousseau 2:14:22
- An Inquiry 2:27:14
- Fat and Thin 2:32:52
- A Tragic Actor 2:38:12
- A Slander 2:47:12
- The Bird Market 2:57:01
- Choristers 3:07:35
- The Album 3:20:07
- Minds in Ferment 3:25:18
- A Chameleon 3:34:35
- In the Graveyard 3:43:00
- Oysters 3:48:46
- The Swedish Match 3:58:35
- The Marshal’s Widow 4:49:42
- Small Fry 5:00:01
- In an Hotel 5:08:32
- Boots 5:15:28
- Nerves 5:25:22
- A Country Cottage 5:35:32
- Malingerers 5:40:12
- The Fish 5:49:42
- Gone Astray 6:02:16
- The Huntsman 6:12:33
- A Malefactor 6:23:58
- A Dead Body 6:33:19
- The Cook’s Wedding 6:45:28
- In a Strange Land 6:58:16
- Overdoing It 7:08:21
- Old Age 7:19:01
- Sorrow 7:32:32
- Oh! The Public 7:46:43
- Mari d’Elle 7:55:52
- The Looking-Glass 8:09:19
- Art 8:20:34
- A Blunder 8:35:08
- Children 8:39:31
- Misery 8:52:45
- An Actor’s End 9:06:43
- The Requiem 9:22:51
- Anyuta 9:36:32
- Ivan Matveyitch 9:47:06
- The Witch 10:00:54
- A Story Without an End 10:31:32
- A Joke 10:52:50
- Agafya 11:03:50
- A Nightmare 11:30:30
- Grisha 12:05:51
- Love 12:13:48
- Easter Eve 12:29:19
- Ladies 12:57:21
- Strong Impressions 13:06:20
- A Gentleman Friend 13:19:00
- A Happy Man 13:27:17
- The Privy Councillor 13:39:52
- A Day in the Country 14:25:09
- At a Summer Villa 14:40:52
- Panic Fears 14:53:14
- The Chemist’s Wife 15:07:48
- Not Wanted 15:21:14
- The Chorus Girl 15:37:08
- The Schoolmaster 15:51:15
- A Troublesome Visitor 16:09:37
- A Misfortune 16:24:35
- A Pink Stocking 16:58:37
- Martyrs 17:08:05
- The First-Class Passenger 17:22:07
- Talent 17:40:50
- The Dependents 17:51:50
- The Jeune Premier 18:07:22
- In the Dark 18:19:45
- A Trivial Incident 18:31:05
- A Tripping Tongue 18:57:44
- A Trifle from Life 19:06:55
- Difficult People 19:20:25
- In the Court 19:41:14
- A Peculiar Man 19:58:52
- Mire 20:09:47
- Dreams 20:56:31
- Hush! 21:18:49
- Excellent People 21:26:42
- An Incident 21:53:40
- The Orator 22:06:37
- A Work of Art 22:15:31
- Who Was to Blame? 22:25:45
- On the Road 22:35:07
- Vanka 23:19:29
- Champagne 23:29:35
- Frost 23:44:20
- The Beggar 24:01:11
- Enemies 24:14:47
- Darkness 24:50:07
- Polinka 25:00:09
- Drunk 25:11:54
- An Inadvertence 25:26:27
- Verotchka 25:36:44
- Shrove Tuesday 26:09:44
- A Defenceless Creature 26:22:21
- A Bad Business 26:34:17
- Home 26:47:28
- The Lottery Ticket 27:11:25
- Too Early! 27:24:08
- Typhus 27:37:29
- In Passion Week 27:54:32
- A Mystery 28:07:20
- The Cossack 28:18:19
- The Letter 28:30:46
- An Adventure 29:01:43
- The Examining Magistrate 29:17:06
- Aborigines 29:29:49
- Happiness 29:45:18
- Bad Weather 30:10:52
- A Play 30:23:22
- A Transgression 30:36:29
- From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man 30:47:57
- Uprooted 31:13:44
- A Father 31:52:53
- A Happy Ending 32:12:30
- In the Coach-House 32:23:08
- Zinotchka 32:38:12
- The Doctor 32:54:16
- The Pipe 33:08:00
- An Avenger 33:30:01
- The Post 33:42:29
- The Runaway 33:57:33
- A Problem 34:16:09
- The Old House 34:33:25
- The Cattle-Dealers 34:48:49
- Expensive Lessons 35:33:37
- The Lion and the Sun 35:49:21
- In Trouble 35:59:47
- The Kiss 36:15:43
- Boys 37:03:32
- Kashtanka 37:19:18
- A Lady’s Story 38:09:58
- A Story Without a Title 38:21:41
- Sleepy 38:32:50
- The Steppe 38:48:13
- Lights 43:01:05
- The Beauties 44:41:12
- The Party 45:03:12
- The Shoemaker and the Devil 46:27:57
- The Bet 46:44:38
- The Princess 47:02:40
- A Dreary Story 47:34:43
- The Teacher of Literature 50:11:49
- A Nervous Breakdown 51:10:01
- The Horse-Stealers 52:07:46
- Gusev 52:49:58
- Peasant Wives 53:25:29
- The Wife 54:01:22
- The Grasshopper 55:57:05
- After the Theatre 57:03:16
- In Exile 57:10:39
- Terror 57:35:18
- Neighbours 58:07:51
- Ward No. 6 58:56:56
- The Two Volodyas 61:19:02
- Rothschild’s Fiddle 61:49:41
- The Student 62:16:13
- At a Country House 62:26:20
- The Head-Gardener’s Story 62:48:12
- A Woman’s Kingdom 63:00:32
- Anna on the Neck 64:46:21
- Whitebrow 65:19:38
- Ariadne 65:33:39
- The Helpmate 66:42:07
- The Murder 66:58:34
- Three Years 68:15:51
- An Artist’s Story 72:04:43
- My Life 72:51:52
- Peasants 76:53:00
- The Petchenyeg 78:17:14
- At Home 78:44:42
- The Schoolmistress 79:17:01
- The Man in a Case 79:39:48
- Gooseberries 80:14:41
- About Love 80:42:52
- The Darling 81:07:21
- The New Villa 81:39:11
- On Official Duty 82:15:41
- The Lady with the Dog 82:58:22
- At Christmas Time 83:41:42
- In the Ravine 83:53:57
- The Bishop 85:37:50
- Betrothed 86:20:24
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Anton Chekhov is widely considered to be one of the greatest short story writers in history. A physician by day, he’s famously quoted as saying, “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.” Chekhov wrote nearly 300 short stories in his long writing career; while at first he wrote mainly to make a profit, as his interest in writing—and his skill—grew, he wrote stories that heavily influenced the modern development of the form.
His stories are famous for, among other things, their ambiguous morality and their often inconclusive nature. Chekhov was a firm believer that the role of the artist was to correctly pose a question, but not necessarily to answer it.
This collection contains all of his short stories and two novellas, all translated by Constance Garnett, and arranged by the date they were originally published.