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No. 42 – The Cook’s Wedding
If you don’t happen to be a Chekhov completist and you aren’t reading every single volume of Constance Garnett’s 13-volume translation of Chekhov’s stories, let me explain that the story “The Cook’s Wedding” is the first story of volume 12, in which every story is about children or animals. If reading roughly two dozen stories…
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No. 47 – A Daughter of Albion
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No. 58 – The Head of the Family
This is a brief, searing portrait of an ill-tempered father and his cowering family. Doubtless it was inspired by Chekhov’s own ill-tempered father, Pavel. Chekhov did not write from life, exactly, and the circumstances of the Zhilin family in this story are different from that of the Chekhovs, but the character of the father in…
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No. 62 – Sorrow
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No. 90 – Nerves
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No. 93 – A Malefactor
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No. 140 – Gone Astray
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No. 135 – The Fish
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No. 167 – Mari D’elle
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No. 69 – In a Strange Land
A Chekhov Circus
A guide to the short stories of Anton Chekhov
A Chekhov Circus 