![]() ![]() – a slight farce that might have amused the author’s student friends at the time.Ī short 400-word mock-celebration by a (presumably fictitious) author of the 2,000th rejection of his texts by editors.Ī Thousand and One Passions, or A Scary Night After pleading and then offering money and then threatening, they do come to an understanding and everyone is happy about the outcome. Where he enters unannounced to find the teacher in the company of a pretty and scantily-dressed young woman. She pretends not to have noticed the maid sitting on Papasha’s knees when she came in, but menaces to bring the subject up if he doesn’t comply, so off he goes to the teacher’s. Mother comes to see Papa about complaining to the teacher of their fifteen-year-old son’s terrible marks that will prevent him from finally advancing to the fourth grade. – clearly intended to be a humoristic critique of the upper half of society, its simplistic moralism may have been of some interest in its time. The story ends badly for Ivan, of course. Where he realizes that he can only save one of them while they are both promising him the moon. But Ivan Pavlovich, previously a servant of theirs, hears their cries and swims out to their aid. Outraged by these revelations, he takes her out boating and takes out his whip to teach her a lesson, but the lady fights back and they both end up in the water in danger of drowning. Major Shchelkolobov, a prosperous land-owner, has overheard his wife declaring that she doesn’t love him because of his boorish ways and calling him a peasant. He concludes with a mention of his daughter who would like the scientist to visit with some clever books, and asks him to beat the bearer of the letter if he has gone to the tavern on the way. All of that and more is expressed in the most deferential manner possible, and at the end the man insists on their shared interests and explains a number of his own scientific discoveries such as the fact that winter days are short because they shrink due to the cold. Also, he doesn’t agree with what he has said about the moon, because if there could be people living on the moon their slops would fall on the Earth, and anyway the moon disappears during the day. He does mention, however, that he cannot agree with the scientist’s declarations about man having descended from the apes, because if that were true people would think that women who smell like monkeys would be pleasing, and anyway we aren’t covered in fur and we wear clothes, and if people were descended from monkeys they would have to dance on tables in gypsy saloons. Synopsis/ Comments_Ī retired nobleman writes to his neighbour, a famous scientist, to declare how much he would like to meet him now that he has been living next door to him for the past year, and insists at length on his own interest in science. THE COMPLETE 522 STORIES, NOVELETTES AND NOVELLAS OTHER WORKS INCLUDED IN SOME ANTHOLOGIES OF CHEKHOV STORIESġ. THE COMPLETE 522 STORIES: OVERVIEWS, COMMENTS AND RATINGSģ CHEKHOV’S CAPTIONS FOR HUMOROUS DRAWINGSĤ. ![]() Stories for which the English title is highlighted are shown in full elsewhere on the site and can be seen by clicking on the title.ġ. There are entries here for all of the texts by Chekhov (other than his plays and novels) in all of the English-language anthologies and collections of Chekhov’s works listed in the References section, as well as all the entries (many of which have never been translated into English) in the main Russian-language catalogues of Chekhov’s collected works, also identified below – a total of 632 texts in all. ![]() others=> not in the same category as the above, for the reasons indicated.Ĭhekhov’s humorous captions for drawings are shown separately, as are his other texts – mostly short jocular lists usually called "humoresques" – that don’t fit into the category of short stories.9.5=> one of his most outstanding works.10=> one of the greatest short stories of all time.our comments on the literary merits of the text.a classification by theme (drama, humour, satire, etc.).the original Russian title of the story.Here you will find a complete list of all of his short stories, novelettes and novellas in chronological order of initial publication, with for each entry: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was without a doubt the most prolific writer of short stories of all time, having written the 522 stories – and the 110 other texts – overviewed here, as well as 2 novels before his premature death from tuberculosis at the age of 44. ![]()
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