A Chekhov Circus
A guide to the short stories of Anton Chekhov
Hallucinations of a black monk disturb the life of an ambitious man.
A bureaucrat drives himself practically mad trying to figure out how a stranger’s signature keeps turning up in his guest book.
An aggressive amateur writer forces a successful playwright to listen to her work
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.
A Chekhov Circus 