A Chekhov Circus
A guide to the short stories of Anton Chekhov
A policeman acts tough after a puppy nips someone on the street.
An actor’s failed suicide spurs his neighbor, a writer, to use him as the subject for a story.
Two men drink too much and get lost stumbling home.
A saintly doctor is murdered, but no one can believe that anyone could actually kill so good a man.
An enormous fish foils repeated efforts to trap it.
A pair of old school friends bump into each other and discover that their careers have followed quite different paths.
A wealthy man fails to understand the effects of poverty on the local priest, who has been tasked with opening a schoo.
Unwilling to live the way his rich father has, a man becomes a simple laborer.
A man fantasizes about winning the lottery, but even in fantasy there seems to be sufferingn and unhappiness.
A voluble young writer agrees to eulogize a man he barely knew.
A Chekhov Circus 