Easton Press Anton Chekhov books
Two Plays - The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters - 100 Greatest Books Ever Written - 1977Franklin Library Anton Chekhov books
Peasants and other stories - Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers - 1977
Peasants and other Stories - World's Best Loved Books - 1977
Plays - World's Best Loved Books - 1979
The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard - Great Books of the 20th Century - 1980
Anton Chekhov biography
Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, a small provincial port on the Sea of Azov, in southern Russia on January 29, 1860. A son of a grocer (his father had the official rank of Trader of the Third Guild - купeц 3й гильдии) and grandson to a serf who had bought his own freedom, Anton Chekhov was the third of six children.
Anton attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog (1866-1868), and at the age of eight he was sent to the Taganrog Gymnasium for boys, where he proved an average pupil. Rather reserved and undemonstrative, he nevertheless gained a reputation for satirical comments, for pranks, and for making up humorous nicknames for his teachers. He enjoyed playing in amateur theatricals and often attended performances at the provincial theater. As an adolescent he tried his hand at writing short "anecdotes", farcical or facetious stories, although he is also known to have written a serious long play at this time, "Fatherless", which he later destroyed.
Anton Chekhov was in love with theater and literature from his childhood. The first performance that he attended was Jacques Offenbach's operetta Elena the Beautiful onstage Taganrog City Theater on October 4, 1873. Anton was a thirteen years old Gymnasium student, and from that moment on, he became a great theater lover and spent there virtually all his savings. His favorite seat in the theater was at the back gallery for it was cheap (40 silver kopeeks), and because Gymnasium students needed a special authorisation to go to the theater. The permission was given not often and mostly for the weekends. Sometimes, Chekhov and other fellow students disguised themselves and even wore some makeup, spectacles or a fake beard, trying to fool the regular school staff who checked for unauthorized presence of students.
The writer's mother, Yevgeniya, was an excellent storyteller, and Chekhov is supposed to have acquired his own gift for narrative and to have learned to read and write from her. His father, Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov, a strict disciplinarian and a religious zealot, demanded from all dedication to the Eastern Orthodox Church and the family business. In 1875, facing bankruptcy, he was forced to escape from creditors to Moscow, where his two eldest sons were attending the university, and for the next several years the family lived in poverty.
Anton stayed behind in Taganrog for three more years to finish school. He made ends meet by giving private tutoring, selling off household goods, and later, working in a clothing warehouse. In 1879, Chekhov completed schooling at the gymnasium and joined his family in Moscow, having gained admission to the medical school at Moscow State University.
Early writing
In a bid to support his family, Chekhov started writing short, humorous sketches and vignettes of contemporary Russian life, many under pseudonyms such as Antosha Chekhonte (Антоша Чехонте), Man without the spleen (Человек без селезенки), and others. His first published piece appeared in the St Petersburg weekly Strekoza (Стрекоза, "Dragonfly") in March, 1880. It is not known how many stories Chekhov wrote during this period, but his output was prodigious, and he rapidly earned a reputation as a satirical chronicler of Russian street life.
Nicolas Leykin, one of the leading publishers of the time and the owner of Oskolki (Осколки, "Fragments"), to which Chekhov began submitting some of his finer works, recognized the writer's talent but restricted the length of Chekhov's prose, limiting him only to sketches of a page and a half in length. Some believe that it was this limitation that developed Chekhov's trademark concise style.
Chekhov qualified as a physician in 1884, but continued writing for weekly periodicals and in 1885 began submitting to the Peterburgskaya Gazeta ("The Petersburg Gazette") longer works of a more somber nature; these were rejected by Leykin. By December 1885 he was invited to write for one of the most respected papers of St Petersburg, Novoye vremya (Новое Время, "New Times"), owned and edited by the millionaire magnate Alexey Suvorin. By 1886 Chekhov was becoming a well-known writer, but he still considered his writing a hobby.
Dmitrii Grigorovich, one of the many writers who were attracted to Chekhov's stories, persuaded him to take his talents seriously. In an immensely fruitful year Chekhov wrote over a hundred stories and published his first collection "Motley Tales" {Pestrye rasskazy) with support from Suvorin, and in the following year the short story collection "At Dusk" (V sumerkakh) won Chekhov the coveted Pushkin Prize. This would mark the beginnings of a highly productive career for the writer.
Later years
In the late 1880s, Chekhov contracted tuberculosis from his patient. In 1887, forced by overwork and ill health, Chekhov undertook a trip to eastern Ukraine. Upon his return, he started writing the long short story The Steppe (Step), which was eventually published in a serious literary journal Severny vestnik ("Northern Herald"). This short story marked a new height for the writer, having the prestige to be published in a leading periodical of the time and showing the maturity that distinguished his later fiction.
The first production of "The Seagull," which premiered October 17, 1896, in St. Petersburg, was disastrous for Chekhov. The opening night audience was expecting a comedy and the company had had only nine days to rehearse. Jeers and boos greeted Nina's monologue at the end of Act I. So distraught was Chekhov that he wrote "I shall never forget last evening...I shall not have that play produced in Moscow, ever. NEVER again shall I write play or have them staged." (As luck would have it, audiences from the 2nd and 3rd nights were more appreciative; however, Chekhov ignored them.)
After the second production of The Seagull (and first successful one) by the Moscow Art Theatre, in 1898, he wrote three more plays for the same company: Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. In 1901 he married Olga Leonardovna Knipper (1870-1959), an actress who performed in his plays.
The movement toward naturalism in theatre that was sweeping Europe reached its highest artistic peak in Russia in 1898 with the formation of the Moscow Art Theatre (later, until recently, called МХАТ, the Moscow Academy Art Theatre). Its name became synonymous with that of Chekhov, whose plays about the day-to-day life of the landed gentry achieved a delicate poetic realism that was years ahead of its time. Konstantin Stanislavsky, its director, became the 20th century's most influential theorist on acting.
Accompanied by Suvorin, Chekhov visited western Europe. Their long and close friendship negatively reflected on Chekhov's popularity, as Suvorin's Novoye vremya was considered politically reactionary in the increasingly liberal times. Eventually, Chekhov broke with Suvorin over the attitude taken by the paper toward the notorious Dreyfus Affair in France, with Chekhov championing the cause of Alfred Dreyfus.
Death
His illness forced Chekhov to spend long periods of time in Nice, France and later in Yalta in the Crimea. Chekhov died of complications of tuberculosis in Badenweiler, Germany where he had been visiting a special clinic for treatment. He was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
It can be safely said that Chekhov revolutionized the genre of short story; his subject matter and technique influenced many future short-story writers. It is often said that little action occurs in Chekhov's stories and plays, but he compensates for lack of outward excitement by his original techniques for developing internal drama. The point of a typical Chekhov story is most often what happens within a given character, and that is conveyed indirectly, by suggestion or by significant detail. Chekhov eschews the traditional build-up of chronological detail, instead emphasizing moments of epiphanies and illumination over a significantly shorter period of time. As such, his best stories have a psychological realism and concision seldom matched by other writers. Tolstoy likened Chekhov's technique to that of the French Impressionists, who daubed canvases with paint apparently without reason, but achieved an overall effect of vivid, unchallengeable artistry.
One critic says of Chekhov that he is no moralist — he simply says "you live badly, ladies and gentlemen," but his smile has the indulgence of a very wise man.
As samples of the Russian epistolary art, Chekhov's letters have been rated second only to Aleksandr Pushkin's by the literary historian D.S. Mirsky. Although Chekhov is still chiefly known for his plays, critical opinion shows signs of establishing the stories, particularly those that were written after 1888, as an even more significant and creative literary achievement.
Equally innovative in his dramatic works, Chekhov sought to convey the texture of everyday life and move away from traditional ideas of plot and conventions of dramatic speech. Dialogue in his plays is not smooth or continuous: characters interrupt each other, several different conversations take place at the same time, and lengthy pauses occur when no one speaks at all. A recurring theme is the pointlessness of radical, human or mechanical change, versus the powerful inertia of slow organic cycles.
Perhaps one of his best known contributions is Chekhov's dictum (also known as Chekhov's Gun): If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.
Influence
Although contemporary Russian literary critics celebrated Chekhov, international fame came only after World War I with Constance Garnett's English translations.
Chekhov's plays were immensely popular in England in the 1920s and have become classics of the British stage. In the United States his fame came somewhat later, through the influence of Stanislavsky's technique for achieving realistic acting. American playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Clifford Odets have used Chekhovian techniques, and few important writers of plays in the 20th century can have escaped Chekhov's influence entirely: for example, the work by British playwright Michael Frayn is often compared to that of Chekhov for its focus on humorous family situations and its insights into society.
Many writers of prose, particularly of short stories, have also been influenced by Chekhov, such as Katherine Mansfield. John Cheever has been called "the Chekhov of the suburbs" for his ability to capture the drama and sadness of the lives of his characters by revealing the undercurrents of apparently insignificant events. American writer Raymond Carver was also frequently compared to Chekhov, because of his minimalistic prose style, and tendency to meditate upon the humor and tragedy in the everyday lives of working class people. Master of the short story, the British author Victor Sawdon Pritchett's short stories are prized for their craftsmanship and comic irony similar to that of Chekhov.
The continuously growing list of films and theater productions based on Chekhov's stories and plays includes Emil Loteanu's My Tender and Affectionate Beast (1978, see Мой ласковый и нежный зверь at The Internet Movie Database), Nikita Mikhalkov and Marcello Mastroianni's Dark Eyes (1987), Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), Anthony Hopkins's August (1996), Lanford Wilson's The Three Sisters (1997), among many others.
Plays in order
Untitled Play (commonly known as Platonov in English - 1878)
That Worthless Fellow Platonov (c.1881)
On the High Road (1884)
On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (1886, 1902)
Ivanov (1887)
Swansong (1887)
The Bear (1888)
The Proposal or A Marriage Proposal (c.1888-1889)
A Tragedian in Spite of Himself or A Reluctant Tragic Hero (1889)
The Wedding (1889)
The Wood Demon (1889)
Tatiana Repina (1889)
The Festivities or The Anniversary (1891)
The Seagull (1896)
Uncle Vanya (1899-1900)
The Night before the Trial (1890s)
Three Sisters (1901)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Short stories
Intrigues (1879-1884) - nine stories
A Letter to a Learned Neighbor (1880)
Papa (1880)
My Jubilee (1880)
A Thousand and One Passions, or A Scary Night (1880)
Little Apples (1880)
Before the Wedding (1880)
À l’Américaine (1880)
Artists' Wives (1880)
St. Peter's Day (1881)
On the Train (1881)
Salon de Variétés (1881)
The Trial (1881)
This and That: Poetry and Prose (1881)
This and That: Letters and Telegrams (1881)
A Sinner from Toledo (1881)
In a Wolf's Cage (1882)
I Forget!! (1882)
Life as a Series of Questions and Exclamations (1882)
A Confession, or Olya, Zhenya, Zoya (1882)
Green Scythe (1882)
The Date Took Place, But... (1882)
The Correspondent (1882)
Village Doctors (1882)
Lost Business [A Lost Cause] (1882)
Bad Story (1882)
The Twenty-Ninth of June (1882)
Which One of the Three? (1882)
He and She (1882)
The Fair (1882)
The Baroness (1882)
A Living Chattel (1882)
Late-Blooming Flowers (1882)
An Unsuccessful Visit (1882)
Encountered (1882)
The Good Friend (1882)
Two Scandals (1882)
An Idyll – But Alas! (1882)
The Baron (1882)
Revenge (1882)
Experienced: A Psychological Study (1882)
Reluctant Scammers (1882)
Soothsayer and Soothsayeress (1882)
The Secrets of the Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes, or the Russian Rocambole (1882)
Masquerades (1883)
The Crooked Mirror (1883)
Rapture [Joy] (1883)
Two in One (1883)
Two Romantic Stories (1883)
Rejected Love (1883)
The Confession (1883)
Cases of Mania Grandiosa (1883)
On a Dark Night (1883)
The Only Way (1883)
A Hypnotic Seance [A Seance] (1883)
Gone (1883)
A Lawyer's Romance: A Protocol (1883)
On a Nail (1883)
At the Barber's (1883)
A Woman Without Prejudice (1883)
Advice (1883)
Grateful: A Psychological Study (1883)
The Cross (1883)
The Zealot (1883)
The Collection (1883)
A Ram and a Lady (1883)
Sentimentality (1883)
The Turnip: A Folktale (1883)
A Poisonous Incident (1883)
The Triumph of the Victor (1883)
The Patriot (1883)
The Clever Janitor (1883)
The Bridegroom (1883)
The Fool (1883)
A Story That's Hard to Name (1883)
The Brother (1883)
The Philanthropist (1883)
An Incident at Law (1883)
An Enigmatic Nature (1883)
A Conversation (1883)
Trickery (1883)
Knights Without Fear and Without Reproach (1883)
The Willow-Tree (1883)
The Thief (1883)
The Sheet of Paper (1883)
A Snack (1883)
Twenty-Six (1883)
Words, Words, Words (1883)
The Mother-in-law Lawyer (1883)
A Classical Student (1883)
The Cat (1883)
Flying Islands (1883)
My Nana (1883)
The Nightingale's Benefit Performance (1883)
Mama and Mr. Lentovsky 21 May 1883 (1883)
The Villains and Mr. Egorov (1883)
The Ingenuity of Mr. Rodon (1883)
The Deputy, or the Story of How Desdemonov Lost 25 Roubles (1883)
The Heroic Lady (1883)
How I Came to Be Lawfully Wed (1883)
From the Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper (1883)
Just Like His Grandfather (1883)
Once a Year (1883)
Mr. Gulevich, Writer, and the Drowned Man (1883)
The Potato and the Tenor (1883)
The Death of a Government Clerk (1883)
The Real Truth (1883)
A Naughty Boy (1883)
Goat or Scoundrel? (1883)
The Trousseau (1883)
The Virtuous Clerk (1883)
The Daughter of Albion (1883)
Patronage (1883)
An Inquiry (1883)
The Retired Slave (1883)
The Fool, or The Retired Sea Captain (1883)
Mayonnaise (1883)
In Autumn (1883)
In a Landau (1883)
Fat and Thin (1883)
The Grateful German (1883)
A Tragic Actor (1883)
The Daughter of a Commercial Advisor (1883)
A Sign of the Times (1883)
The Guardian (1883)
A Lawyer (1883)
At Sea (1883)
At the Post Office (1883)
From the Diary of a Young Girl (1883)
The Bird Market (1883)
The Stationmaster (1883)
A Slander (1883)
In the Living-Room (1883)
A Children's Primer (1883)
He Understood! (1883)
The Swedish Match (1883)
On Christmas Eve (1883)
The Exam (1883)
Lights (1883-1888)
The Liberal (1884)
75,000 (1884)
The Decoration (1884)
The Comedian (1884)
Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights (1884)
A Woman's Revenge (1884)
A Young Man (1884)
Vanka (1884)
On the Hunt (1884)
The Tutor (1884)
O Women, Women! (1884)
A Naive Woodsman (1884)
The French Ball (1884)
Choristers (1884)
The Complaints Book (1884)
Two Letters (1884)
Perpetuum Mobile (1884)
Life Descriptions of Remarkable Contemporaries (1884)
Reading (1884)
Maria Ivanovna (1884)
Tryphon (1884)
A Proud Man (1884)
The Album (1884)
Self-Indulgence (1884)
The Dacha Girl (1884)
I Had an Argument With My Wife (1884)
Letter to a Reporter (1884)
Dacha Pleasure (1884)
Minds in Ferment (1884)
An Ideal Examination (1884)
The Vaudevillian (1884)
Examination for a Rank (1884)
Russian Coal (1884)
Surgery (1884)
An Idyll (1884)
Tears Invisible to the World (1884)
The Chameleon (1884)
After the Fair (1884)
Worse and Worse (1884)
What Is To Be Done? (1884)
Chaos-Vile in Rome (1884)
An Eclipse of the Moon (1884)
Whist (1884)
In the Graveyard (1884)
Goose Talk (1884)
A Mouth as Big as All Outdoors (1884)
And Beautiful Things Must Have Limits (1884)
In a Home for the Terminally Ill and the Elderly (1884)
The Mask (1884)
A Dissertation on Drama (1884)
A Marriage of Convenience (1884)
Honorable Townsfolk (1884)
A Problem (1884)
A Speech and a Strap (1884)
At the Sickbed (1884)
Pictures From the Recent Past (1884)
Oysters (1884)
Marriage to the General (1884)
A Liberal Fool (1884)
The Christmas Tree (1884)
The Terrible Night (1884)
Out of Sorts (1884)
To Speak or Be Silent? (1884)
Perpetuum Mobile (1884)
Festive Duty (1885)
The Captain's Uniform (1885)
The Marshal's Widow (1885)
A Living Chronology (1885)
Service Notes (1885)
A Report (1885)
A Man and a Dog Converse (1885)
At the Bathhouse (1885)
Feast-Day Gratuities (1885)
Small Fry (1885)
Both are Better (1885)
Hopeless (1885)
The Complicated Affair (1885)
May Day at Sokolniki (1885)
The Last Mohican (1885)
In an Hotel (1885)
About This and That (1885)
The Diplomat (1885)
Hard Housing (1885)
The Wallet (1885)
Abolished! (1885)
The Threat (1885)
The Crow (1885)
Trifles (1885)
Boots (1885)
My Love (1885)
Nerves (1885)
A Country Cottage (1885)
Up the Ladder (1885)
A Guard in Custody (1885)
My Wives (1885)
Trickery: An Extremely Ancient Joke (1885)
An Intelligent Log (1885)
Malingerers (1885)
The Fish (1885)
From the Memories of an Idealist (1885)
At the Pharmacy (1885)
A Horsey Name (1885)
It's Not Meant to Be! (1885)
Gone Astray (1885)
The Huntsman (1885)
A Prelude to a Marriage (1885)
A Malefactor (1885)
On the Train: Conversational Shootout (1885)
Bridegroom and Dad (1885)
The Guest (1885)
A Man of Ideas (1885)
Horse and Quivering Doe (1885)
The Dealer (1885)
Drowning (1885)
The Wall (1885)
The Whistlers (1885)
The Head of the Family (1885)
The Village Elder (1885)
A Dead Body (1885)
Women's Good Fortune (1885)
The Cook's Wedding (1885)
After the Benefit Performance (1885)
A Memo (1885)
The Marriage Season (1885)
General Education (1885)
Sergeant Prishibeyev (1885)
Two Newspapermen (1885)
The Psychopaths (1885)
In a Strange Land (1885)
The Indian Rooster (1885)
Sleepy Follies (1885)
Opinions on a Hat Disaster (1885)
To Cure a Drinking Bout (1885)
Double Bass and Flute (1885)
Ninotchka (1885)
Dear Dog (1885)
The Writer (1885)
The Ballroom Pianist (1885)
Overdoing It (1885)
No Place (1885)
Marriage in 10-15 Years' Time (1885)
Old Age (1885)
Sorrow (1885)
Oh! The Public! (1885)
The Wimp (1885)
My Talk with Edison (1885)
Sacred Simplicity (1885)
Murder Will Out (1885)
A Cynic (1885)
Mari d’Elle (1885)
An Entrepreneur Under the Sofa (1885)
A Dream: A Christmas Story (1885)
The Exclamation Mark (1885)
The Looking Glass (1885)
Masquerades (1886)
Letters to the Editor (1886)
New Year's Day Martyrs (1886)
Art (1886)
A Night in the Cemetery (1886)
A Blunder (1886)
The First Debut (1886)
The Telephone (1886)
Children (1886)
The Biggest City (1886)
The Opening (1886)
Misery (1886)
The Night Before the Trial (1886)
An Upheaval (1886)
Conversation Between a Drunk and a Sober Devil (1886)
An Actor's End (1886)
The Foolish Frenchman (1886)
The Requiem (1886)
Anyuta 22 February (1886)
On Mortality: A Carnival Tale (1886)
A Person (1886)
Ivan Matveyich (1886)
Poison (1886)
The Witch (1886)
A Story Without an End (1886)
The Little Joke (1886)
Agafya (1886)
My Conversation With the Postmaster (1886)
The Wolf (1886)
To Paris! (1886)
Spring (1886)
A Nightmare (1886)
Lots of Paper (1886)
The Rook (1886)
On the River (1886)
Grisha (1886)
Love (1886)
Easter Eve (1886)
Ladies (1886)
Strong Impressions (1886)
A Fairy Tale (1886)
A Gentleman Friend (1886)
A Happy Man (1886)
The Privy Councillor (1886)
A Day in the Country (1886)
In a Boarding House (1886)
At a Summer Villa (1886)
Nothing To Be Done (1886)
The Boredom of Life (1886)
Romance with Double-Bass (1886)
Panic Fears (1886)
The Chemist's Wife (1886)
Not Wanted (1886)
A Serious Step (1886)
The Chorus Girl (1886)
The Schoolmaster (1886)
A Troublesome Visitor (1886)
Rara Avis (1886)
Other People's Misfortune (1886)
You and You (1886)
The Husband (1886)
A Misfortune (1886)
A Pink Stocking (1886)
Martyrs (1886)
The First-class Passenger (1886)
Talent (1886)
The Dependents (1886)
The Jeune Premier (1886)
In the Dark (1886)
A Trivial Incident (1886)
A Bright Personality (1886)
A Drama (1886)
A Tripping Tongue (1886)
A Trifle from Life (1886)
Difficult People (1886)
Ah, Teeth! (1886)
In the Court (1886)
Revenge (1886)
Whining (1886)
The Proposal (1886)
A Peculiar Man (1886)
My Household (1886)
Mire (1886)
The Lodger (1886)
A Dreadful Night (1886)
Calchas (1886)
Dreams (1886)
Hush! (1886)
At the Mill (1886)
Excellent People (1886)
An Incident (1886)
The Playwright (1886)
The Orator (1886)
In Trouble (1886)
The Commission (1886)
The Objet d'Art (1886)
The Jubilee (1886)
Who Was to Blame? (1886)
On the Road (1886)
Vanka (1886)
It Was Her! (1886)
Man: A Bit of Philosophy (1886)
For the Information of Husbands (1886)
Motley Stories (1886)
A Work of Art (1886)
Hydrophobia (1886-1901)
New Year's Torture (1887)
Champagne (1887)
Frost (1887)
The Beggar (1887)
Enemies (1887)
The Good German (1887)
Darkness (1887)
Polinka (1887)
Drunk (1887)
An Inadvertence (1887)
Verochka (1887)
Shrove Tuesday (1887)
A Defenceless Creature (1887)
A Bad Business (1887)
Home (1887)
The Lottery Ticket (1887)
Too Early! (1887)
An Encounter (1887)
Typhus (1887)
Life's Hardships (1887)
In Passion Week (1887)
A Mystery (1887)
The Cossack (1887)
The Letter (1887)
Boa Constrictor and Rabbit (1887)
In the Spring (1887)
The Critic (1887)
An Adventure (1887)
The Examining Magistrate (1887)
Aborigines (1887)
Volodya (1887)
Happiness (1887)
Bad Weather (1887)
A Drama (1887)
One of Many (1887)
First Aid (1887)
A Nasty Story (1887)
A Transgression (1887)
Notes from the Journal of a Quick-Tempered Man (1887)
Uprooted (1887)
A Father (1887)
A Happy Ending (1887)
In the Coach-House (1887)
Intruders (1887)
Before the Eclipse (1887)
Zinotchka (1887)
The Doctor (1887)
The Siren (1887)
The Reed-Pipe (1887)
An Avenger (1887)
The Post (1887)
A Wedding (1887)
The Runaway (1887)
A Problem (1887)
Intrigues (1887)
The Old House (1887)
The Cattle-Dealers (1887)
Expensive Lessons (1887)
The Lion and The Sun (1887)
In Trouble (1887)
The Kiss (1887)
Boys (1887)
Kashtanka (1887)
A Lady's Story (1887)
On Easter Eve (1887)
A Story Without a Title (1888)
Sleepy (1888)
A Forced Declaration (1888)
Lights (1888)
An Awkward Business (1888)
The Beauties (1888)
The Party [The Name-Day Party] (1888)
A Nervous Breakdown [The Seizure / An Attack of Nerves] (1888)
The Cobbler and the Devil (1888)
Beauties (From a Doctor's Notebook) (unfinished - 1888)
The Swan Song (1888)
A Boring Story (1889)
The Bet (1889)
The Princess (1889)
A Dreary Story (1889)
Thieves [The Horse Stealers / Robbers] (1890)
Gusev (1890) Гусев
At the Zelenins' (unfinished - 1890)
A Letter (1890)
Peasant Wives (1891)
In Moscow (1891)
The Wife (1892)
The Grasshopper (1892)
After the Theatre (1892)
Fragment (1892)
The Story of a Commercial Venture (1892)
In Exile (1892)
From a Retired Teacher's Notebook (1892)
A Fishy Affair (1892)
Neighbours (1892)
Ward No. 6 (1892)
Terror (1892)
The Butterfly (1892)
The Two Volodyas (1893)
The Black Monk (1894)
A Woman's Kingdom (1894)
Rothschild's Violin [Rothschild's Fiddle] (1894)
The Student (1894)
The Teacher of Literature (1894)
At a Country House (1894)
The Head Gardener's Story (1894)
His Wife (1895)
Whitebrow (1895)
Anna on the Neck (1895)
Murder (1895)
Ariadne (1895)
Schulz (unfinished - 1895)
The House with an Attic (1896)
My Life (1896)
Peasants (1897)
The Petcheneg (1897)
At Home (1897)
In the Cart (1897)
All Friends Together (1898)
Ionych (1898)
Ionych (1898)
A Doctor's Visit (1898)
The Little Trilogy - The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, About Love (1898)
The New Villa (1898)
On Official Business (1898)
The Darling (1899)
The New Villa (1899)
On Official Duty [On Official Business / On Duty] (1899)
The Lady with the Dog (1899)
At Christmas (1899)
In the Ravine (1900)
In the Ravine (1900)
The Cripple (unfinished - 1900)
The Bishop (1902)
The Bet (1889)
Betrothed or A Marriageable Girl (1903)
The Disorder of Compensation (unfinished - 1903)
Agafya
The Pipe
The Lottery Ticket
Verochka
Dialogues and parodies
The Fool, or The Retired Sea Captain (1883)
Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights (1884)
A Young Man (1884)
An Ideal Examination (1884)
Chaos-Vile in Rome (1884)
A Mouth as Big as All Outdoors (1884)
Honorable Townsfolk (1884)
At the Sickbed (1884)
The Case of the Year 1884 (1885)
A Drama (1886)
In the Spring: Cat's Monologue (1887)
Before the Eclipse (1887)
A Forced Declaration (1888)
Novels
The Shooting Party (1884-1885)
Novellas
The Unnecessary Victory (1882)
The Steppe (1888)
The Duel (1891)
The Story of an Unknown Man (1893)
Three Years (1895)
My Life (1896)
Novelettes
Late-Blooming Flowers (1882)
A Living Chattel (1882)
Lights (1888)
The Party (1888)
A Dreary Story (1889)
Ward No. 6 (1892)
The Wife (1892)
The Black Monk (1894)
A Woman's Kingdom (1894)
Murder (1895)
Peasants (1897)
In the Ravine (1900)
Nonfiction
Fragments of Moscow Life (1883-1885)
The Case of Rykov and Company (1884)
A Journey to Sakhalin (1895)
Other works
Elements Most Often Found in Novels, Short Stories, etc. (1880)
Nadia N.'s Vacation Homework (1880)
The Temperaments (1881)
Antosha Ch's Advertising Office (1881)
Sarah Bernhardt (1881)
Again About Sarah Bernhardt (1881)
Supplementary Questions for the Statistical Census, Submitted by Antosha Chekhonte (1882)
Comic Advertisements and Announcements (1882)
Questions Posed by a Mad Mathematician (1882)
Budilnik Calendar for 1882 (1882)
Meeting Spring (1882)
Philosophical Definitions of Life (1882)
Letter to the Editor (1882)
Advertisements and Announcements (1882)
Thoughts of a Reader of Newspapers and Magazines (1883)
Bibliography (1883)
What's Better? (1883)
Modern Prayers (1883)
Questions and Answers (1883)
America in Rostov on the Don (1883)
Heights (1883)
The Philadelphia Conference of Natural Scientists (1883)
3,000 Foreign Words that have Entered into the Russian Language (1883)
A Brief Anatomy of Man (1883)
My Ranks and Titles (1883)
My Witticisms and Sayings (1883)
List of Exhibitors Awarded With Iron Medals for the Russian Section at the Amsterdam Exhibition (1883)
A New Illness and an Old Cure (1883)
Buckwheat Porridge Praises Itself (1883)
The Testament of an Old Man, 1883 (1884)
Contract of 1884 with Mankind (1884)
Mixed-up Advertisements (1884)
Forgiveness (1884)
The Fruit of a Long Reflection (1884)
Some Thoughts on the Soul (1884)
Troubling Thoughts (1884)
Country Rules (1884)
The Sign (1884)
On the Characteristics of Nations (1884)
The Newest Writer (1884)
A Proposal (1884)
The Case of the Year 1884 (1885)
No Harmful Thoughts (1885)
Maslenitsa Rules of Discipline (1885)
About March, April, May, June, July and August (1885)
A Prose Toast (1885)
A Woman's Toast (1885)
Rules for Beginning Authors (1885)
Red Hill (1885)
Life is Beautiful! (1885)
A Woman From a Drunkard's Point of View (1885)
Something about A. S. Dargomyzhsky (1885)
Fish Business (1885)
Something Serious (1885)
Advertisement (1885)
Doctor's Advice (1885)
A Guide For Those Who Want to Get Married (1885)
Home Remedies (1885)
Visiting Cards (1886)
Champagne: Thoughts from a New Year's Hangover (1886)
A Competition (1886)
Bliny (1886)
About Women (1886)
A Literary Table of Ranks (1886)
Persons Entitled to Travel Free of Charge on the Imperial Russian Railways (1886)
A Glossary of Terms for Young Ladies (1886)
Statistics (1886)
Source and additional information: Anton Chekhov