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No. 10 – The Schoolmistress
This is a beautiful, concise tale of a lonely and loveless woman, a teacher in a rural school. Her work is largely unappreciated, if not completely ignored, by the local government and population. On a regular basis she must travel to town to collect her pay, and on one of these trips she meets a…
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No. 59 – An Artist’s Story
An indolent artist courts a rich young woman against the wishes of her older sister.
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No. 153 – A Classical Student
A young man must bear the wrath of his angry mother when his studies go poorly.
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No. 7 – The Schoolmaster
This is an amazing story, certainly among Chekhov’s best. The plot: An aged principal attends his school’s annual dinner despite his ill health and general weakness. The schoolmaster, Sysoev, is not, it seems, a terribly nice man: Tetchy and volatile, he rejects any suggestion that he may not be strong enough to attend the festivities.…
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No. 65 – Who Was to Blame?
A stern latin teacher fails to deal with a mouse problem.
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No. 149 – The Teacher of Literature
A teacher wins the hand of a wealthy young woman, but wonders if he has made a mistake in marrying her.
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No. 146 – Ladies
On occasion, Chekhov’s stories are almost impossible for a current day American (moi!) to parse. In this brutal and yet weirdly antic story, we meet a schoolmaster and one of his teachers. The teacher–who has been employed by the school for 14 years–has lost his voice, supposedly from drinking a cold beer while he was…
A Chekhov Circus
A guide to the short stories of Anton Chekhov
A Chekhov Circus 