Anton Chekhov

A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhov’s stories are often noted for their stream-of-consciousness style and their vast number. Raymond Carver once said, “It is not only the immense number of stories he wrote—for few, if any, writers have ever done more—it is the awesome frequency with which he produced masterpieces, stories that shrive us as well as delight and move us, that lay bare our emotions in ways only true art can accomplish.”

In The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume 1: 1882–1885, Blackstone has compiled forty-one of these delightful short stories:

A Living Chattel 
Joy 
At the Barber’s 
An Enigmatic Nature 
A Classical Student 
The Death of a Government Clerk 
The Trousseau 
A Daughter of Albion 
An Inquiry 
Fat and Thin 
A Tragic Actor 
The Bird Market 
A Slander 
The Swedish Match 
Choristers 
The Album 
Minds in Ferment 
A Chameleon 
In the Graveyard 
Oysters 
The Marshal’s Widow 
Small Fry 
In an Hotel 
Boots 
Nerves 
A Country Cottage 
Malingerers 
The Fish 
Gone Astray 
The Huntsman 
A Malefactor 
The Head of the Family 
A Dead Body 
The Cook’s Wedding 
In a Strange Land 
Overdoing It 
Old Age 
Sorrow 
Oh! The Public! 
Mari d’Elle 
The Looking-Glass

Anthony Heald

Blackstone Publishing

The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1: 1882–1885

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