Chekhov, Anton:  Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories

Ralph E. Matlaw, ed.

The Texts of the Stories

Chameleon

Oysters

A Living Chronology

The Huntsman

Misery

The Requiem

Anyuta

Agatha

Grisha

A Gentleman Friend

The Chorus Girl

Dreams

Vanka

At Home

The Siren’s Song

Sleepy

The Grasshopper

In Exile

Rothschild’s Fiddle

The Student

The Teacher of Literature

Whitebrow

Anna on the Neck

The House with the Mansard

The Pecheneg

A Journey by Cart

The Man in a Case

Gooseberries

About Love

A Doctor’s Visit

The Darling

The Lady with the Dog

The Bishop

The Betrothed

Backgrounds

Selections from Chekhov’s Letters

To G. I. Rossolimo (October 11, 1899)

To D. V. Grigorovich (March 28, 1886)

To A. P. Chekhov (May 10, 1886)

To A. S. Surovin (May 30, 1888)

To A. S. Surovin (September 11, 1888)

To A. N. Pleshcheev (October 4, 1888)

To A. N. Pleshcheev (October 9, 1888)

To A. S. Surovin (October 27, 1888)

To A. S. Surovin (November 1, 1889)

To L. A. Avilova (March 19, 1892)

To L. A. Avilova (April 29, 1892)

To A. S. Surovin (March 27, 1894)

To L. A. Avilova (October 6, 1897)

To Maxim Gorky (December 3, 1898)

To Maxim Gorky (September 3, 1899)

To D. V. Grigorovich (January 21, 1900)

Maxim Gorky – Anton Chekhov

Criticism

D.S. Mirsky – Chekhov

A. B. Derman – Compositional Elements in Chekhov’s Poetics

Renato Poggioli – Storytelling in a Double Key

Gleb Struve – On Chekhov’s Craftsmanship: The Anatomy of a Story

Donald Rayfield – [The Student]

Karl Kramer – Stories of Ambiguity

Virginia Llewellyn Smith – [The Lady with the Dog]

Nils Åke Nilsson – The Bishop: Its Theme