3. A selection of Chekhov stories

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• "Green Scythe" and other stories by Anton Chekhov

  9 May by Anton Chekhov

  More outstanding stories by the most prolific short-story writer in the history of world literature. CONTENTS
  1. GREEN SCYTHE (1882) The narrator and his friends love to spend their summers on the Black Sea with with the vivacious Olya. Life is gay there but there’s a problem: Olga had promised (...)

• "Lost Business" and other previously-untranslated Chekhov stories

  20 April by Anton Chekhov

  A further selection of the best stories of the great Russian writer that have so far remained untranslated into English. CONTENTS
  1. LOST BUSINESS (1882) The narrator recounts how on a lovely spring day he’d gone to see his beloved Varya to empty his heart and soul to her. He’d mumbled a few (...)

• Fourteen previously-untranslated Chekhov stories

  5 April by Anton Chekhov

  We have selected here fourteen of the best stories in the body of to-date-untranslated stories of the great Russian short-story writer, playwright and doctor that have been overviewed elsewhere on this site.
  Most – but not all – of them are written in the light, humorous tone that characterised (...)

• "Saintly Simplicity" (1885) by Anton Chekhov

  25 February by Anton Chekhov

  Savya, the aged priest of a little town, is delighted to by the visit of his son Alexander, a celebrated Moscow lawyer whom he hadn’t seen for fifteen years since he had sent him off to university in Moscow. The father can’t relate to the big-city life that the son has been leading: he thinks (...)

• "In Autumn" (1883), by Anton Chekhov

  17 January by Anton Chekhov

  On a stormy evening Tikhon’s tavern is crowded with coachmen and pilgrims, and a forty-year-old man in shoddy clothes at the bar is ceaselessly begging for a glass of vodka, eventually proposing his worn-out coat in exchange. Tikhon contemptuously refuses to give him any more vodka until a (...)