Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anton Chekhov
(1860–1904)

Anton Chekhov with bow-tie sepia image

Works

Plays

• Platonov
• On the High Road or On the Highway (На большой дороге) 1884
• On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (О вреде табака) 1886 (revised 1902)
• Ivanoff (Иванов) 1887 (revised 1889)
• The Swan Song (Лебединая песня; lit. "Read More") 1887
• The Jubilee (Юбилей)
• The Proposal (Предложение) 1889
• The Wedding (Свадьба) 1889
• The Boor (Медведь; lit. "The Bear") 1888
• The Seagull (Чайка) 1896
• The Tragedian in Spite of Himself (Трагик поневоле) 1899
• Uncle Vanya (Дядя Ваня) 1900
• The Three Sisters (Три сестры) 1901
• The Cherry Orchard (Вишнёвый сад) 1904

Collections of plays

• Plays by Anton Tchekoff, first series, with translations by Marian Fell [1912] (1916)
• Plays by Anton Tchekoff, second series, with translations by Julius West (1916)

Novellas

Story collections on subpage Stories

• The Steppe (1888)
• The Duel (Chekhov) (1891)
• An Anonymous Story (1893)
• Three Years (1895)
• My Life (1896)

Short stories

• A Living Chattel (1882)
• Joy (1883)
• At the Barber's (1883)
• An Enigmatic Nature (1883)
• A Classical Student (1883)
• The Death of a Government Clerk (1883)
• The Trousseau (1883)
• A Daughter of Albion (1883)
• An Inquiry (1883)
• Fat and Thin (1883)
• A Tragic Actor (1883)
• The Bird Market (1883)
• A Slander (1883)
• The Swedish Match (1883)
• Choristers (1884)
• The Album (1884)
• Minds in Ferment (1884)
• A Chameleon (1884)
• In the Graveyard (1884)
• Oysters (1884)
• The Marshal's Widow (1885)
• Small Fry (1885)
• In an Hotel (1885)
• Boots (Chekhov) (1885)
• Nerves (1885)
• A Country Cottage (1885)
• Malingerers (1885)
• The Fish (Chekhov) (1885)
• Gone Astray (1885)
• The Huntsman (1885)
• A Malefactor (1885)
• The Head of the Family (1885)
• A Dead Body (1885)
• The Cook's Wedding (1885)
• In a Foreign Land (1885)
• Overdoing It (1885)
• Old Age (1885)
• Sorrow (1885)
• Oh! The Public (1885)
• Mari d'Elle (1885)
• The Looking-Glass (Chekhov) (1885)
• Art (Chekhov) (1886)
• A Blunder (1886)
• Children (Chekhov) (1886)
• Misery (1886)
• An Upheaval (1886)
• An Actor's End (1886)
• The Requiem (1886)
• Anyuta (1886)
• Ivan Matveyitch (1886)
• The Witch (1886)
• A Story Without an End (1886)
• A Joke (1886)
• Agafya (1886)
• A Nightmare (Chekhov) (1886)
• Grisha (1886)
• Love (Chekhov) (1886)
• Easter Eve (1886)
• Ladies (Chekhov) (1886)
• Strong Impressions (1886)
• A Gentleman Friend (1886)
• A Happy Man (1886)
• The Privy Councillor (1886)
• A Day in the Country (1886)
• At a Summer Villa (1886)
• Panic Fears (1886)
• The Chemist's Wife (1886)
• Not Wanted (1886)
• The Chorus Girl (1886)
• The Schoolmaster (1886)
• A Troublesome Visitor (1886)
• The Husband (1886)
• Misfortune (1886)
• A Pink Stocking (1886)
• Martyrs (1886)
• The First-Class Passenger (1886)
• Talent (1886)
• The Dependents (1886)
• The Jeune Premier (1886)
• In the Dark (Chekhov) (1886)
• A Trivial Incident (1886)
• A Tripping Tongue (1886)
• A Trifle from Life (1886)
• Difficult People (1886)
• In the Court (1886)
• A Peculiar Man (1886)
• Mire (1886)
• Dreams (Chekhov) (1886)
• Hush! (1886)
• Excellent People (1886)
• An Incident (Chekhov) (1886)
• The Orator (1886)
• A Work of Art (1886)
• Who Was To Blame? (1886)
• Vanka (1886)
• On the Road (Chekhov) (1886)
• Champagne (1887)
• Frost (Chekhov) (1887)
• The Beggar (1887)
• Enemies (1887)
• Darkness (Chekhov) (1887)
• Polinka (1887)
• Drunk (1887)
• An Inadvertence (1887)
• Verotchka (1887)
• Shrove Tuesday (1887)
• A Defenceless Creature (1887)
• A Bad Business (1887)
• Home (Chekhov) (1887)
• The Lottery Ticket (1887)
• Too Early (1887)
• Typhus (1887)
• In Passion Week (1887)
• A Mystery (Chekhov) (1887)
• The Cossack (1887)
• The Letter (Chekhov) (1887)
• An Adventure (1887)
• The Examining Magistrate (1887)
• Aborigines (1887)
• Volodya (1887)
• Happiness (1887)
• Bad Weather (1887)
• A Play (1887)
• A Transgression (1887)
• From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man (1887)
• Uprooted (1887)
• A Father (1887)
• A Happy Ending (1887)
• In the Coach-House (1887)
• Zinotchka (1887)
• The Doctor (1887)
• The Pipe (1887)
• An Avenger (1887)
• The Post (1887)
• The Runaway (1887)
• A Problem (1887)
• The Old House (Chekhov) (1887)
• The Cattle-Dealers (1887)
• Expensive Lessons (1887)
• The Lion and the Sun (1887)
• Trouble (1887)
• The Kiss (1887)
• Boys (1887)
• Kashtanka (1887)
• A Lady's Story (1887)
• A Story Without a Title (1888)
• Sleepy (1888)
• Lights (Chekhov) (1888)
• The Beauties (1888)
• The Party (Chekhov) (1888)
• A Nervous Breakdown (1888)
• The Shoemaker and the Devil (1888)
• The Bet (1889)
• The Princess (1889)
• A Dreary Story (1889)
• The Horse-Stealers (1890)
• Gusev (1890)
• Women (1891)
• The Wife (Chekhov) (1892)
• The Grasshopper (1892)
• After the Theatre (1892)
• In Exile (1892)
• Neighbours (1892)
• Ward No. 6 (1892)
• Terror (Chekhov) (1892)
• The Two Volodyas (1893)
• The Black Monk (1894)
• A Woman's Kingdom (1894)
• Rothschild's Fiddle (1894)
• The Student (1894)
• The Teacher of Literature (1894)
• At a Country House (1894)
• The Head Gardener's Story (1894)
• The Helpmate (1895)
• Whitebrow (1895)
• "Anna on the Neck" (1895)
• The Murder (1895)
• Ariadne (1895)
• An Artist's Story (1896)
• Peasants (1897)
• The Petchenyeg (1897)
• At Home (1897)
• The Schoolmistress (1897)
• The Little Trilogy:
  • The Man in a Case (1898)
  • Gooseberries (1898)
  • About Love (1898)
• Ionitch (1898)
• A Doctor's Visit (1898)
• The Darling (1898)
• The New Villa (1899)
• On Official Duty (1899)
• The Lady with the Dog (1899)
• At Christmas Time (1900)
• In the Ravine (1900)
• The Bishop (1902)
• Betrothed (Chekhov) (1903)

Collections of short stories

Story collections on subpage Stories

Other works

• The Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends with Biographical Sketch (translated by Constance Garnett)
• Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf), 1921

Works about Chekhov

• "Chekhov, Chekhovians, Chekhovism" (1926), an essay by Stuart Pratt Sherman
• "Anton Tchekhof" in The Social Significance of the Modern Drama, by Emma Goldman (1914)
• "Chekhov, Anton Pavlovitch" in Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse (1919)
• "Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov, 1921 by Maxim Gorky, Alexander Kuprin and Ivan Bunin
• Essays on Russian Novelists - Chekhov