A Chekhov Circus
A guide to the short stories of Anton Chekhov
A charitable homeopath realizes that her patients are using her for their own purposes.
A seductive woman manages to charm two men to whom she owes money.
A man disappears and a detective must solve the mystery.
A naive law student has a nervous breakdown after a dispiriting bar crawl through Moscow’s red light district.
An unnamed narrator relates three separate, unrelated moments of deep unease.
A group of jurors, sequestered for the night, trade stories from life but seem not to learn from them.
Having had one drink too many, a newlywed husband can’t find his way back to his train compartment where his wife is waiting for him.
An unnamed narrator recalls two strikingly beautiful women.
Two family members quarrel over religious practices and an inheritence.
A young woman languishes in the unhealthy environment of a factory town.