
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов ) was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, southern Russia, the son of a grocer. Chekhov's grandfather was a serf, who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught himself to read and write. Yevgenia Morozova, Chekhov's mother, was the daughter of a cloth merchant. "When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." His early years were shadowed by his father's tyranny, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, which was open from five in the morning till midnight. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog (1867-68) and Taganrog grammar school (1868-79). The family was forced to move to Moscow following his father's bankruptcy. At the age of 16, Chekhov became independent and remained for some time alone in his native town, supporting himself through private tutoring. In 1879 Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical School. While in the school, he began to publish hundreds of comic short stories to support himself and his mother, sisters and brothers. His publisher at this period was Nicholas Leikin, owner of the St. Petersburg journal Oskolki (splinters). His subjects were silly social situations, marital problems, farcical encounters between husbands, wives, mistresses, and lovers, whims of young women, of whom Chekhov had not much knowledge – the author was shy with women even after his marriage. His works appeared in St. Petersburg daily papers, Peterburskaia gazeta from 1885, and Novoe vremia from 1886. Chekhov's first novel, Nenunzhaya pobeda (1882), set in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Hungarian writer Mór Jókai. As a politician Jókai was also mocked for his ideological optimism. By 1886 Chekhov had gained a wide fame as a writer. His second full-length novel, The Shooting Party, was translated into English in 1926. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926). Chekhov graduated in 1884, and practiced medicine until 1892. In 1886 Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him to become a regular contributor for the St. Petersburg daily Novoe vremya. His friendship with Suvorin ended in 1898 because of his objections to the anti-Dreyfus campaign conducted by paper. But during these years Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion." Chekhov's first book of stories (1886) was a success, and gradually he became a full-time writer. The author's refusal to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia and he was criticized for dealing with serious social and moral questions, but avoiding giving answers. However, he was defended by such leading writers as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888. The failure of his play The Wood Demon (1889) and problems with his novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890 he travelled across Siberia to remote prison island, Sakhalin. There he conducted a detailed census of some 10,000 convicts and settlers condemned to live their lives on that harsh island. Chekhov hoped to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. It is probable that hard conditions on the island also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey was born his famous travel book T
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A Country Cottage
2011

The Two Volodyas
1893

In the Ravine
1900

The Wife and Other Stories
1898

أنطون تشيخوف
مؤلفات مختارة في 4 مجلدات
1981
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Sorrow [Горе]
1885

Stories of Anton Chekhov
1932

رسائل إلى العائلة
2014

فولوديا
1887

Chekhov
Stories for Our Time
2018

The Looking Glass
1885

The Ninny
1833

Contos de Tchékhov - Volume IV
2005

Contos de Tchékhov - Volume IX
2014

The Cherry Orchard
1903

The Kiss
1887

Fat and Thin
1883

Verotchka
2000

المتمارضون
1885

The Chorus Girl And Other Stories
1916

المعلم
1886

The Big Book of Christmas
140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols
2020

الصياد
1885

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
1903

(أنطون تشيخوف
الروايات (الأعمال المختارة #3
2009

Motley Tales and a Play
1998

Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories
1987

الأعداء
1887

The Collected Short Stories, Vol 2
109 Short Stories
2023

Short Stories 1892-1894 (Rasskazy i povesti) Russian edition
2011

Διηγήματα
1985

Revenge
1886

The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
1881

In Exile
1892

The Oxford Chekhov. Vol. 9, Stories, 1898-1904
1975

An Upheaval
1886

السعيد
1886

Opowieści niesamowite. Literatura rosyjska
1975

Relato de un desconocido
1979

تواريخ حية
1885

Anton Chekhov Collection
2012

Five Comic One-Act Plays
1999

Grief
2023

Les groseilliers et autres nouvelles
2015

A Joke
1886

About Love and Other Stories
2004

A Tragic Actor
1883

Four Great Russian Plays
2004

O lyubvi
1898

Fästmön
1903

Love
1886

Théâtre complet, tome 1
La Mouette - Ce fou de Platonov - Ivanov - Les Trois Soeurs
1973

Shadows and Light
Nine Stories
1968

Который из трёх?
2025

A Joke
2020

El Tío Vania. La gaviota. El jardín de los cerezos
1968

فانكا
1886
The Oxford Chekhov
1978

Ariadne and Other Stories
2012

The Woman in the Case
1953

The Death of a Clerk
1883

Albion'un Kızı
1880

Selected Works
Stories
1973

The School Mistress
2004

The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume 2
1886
1886

A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire
1893
Selected Stories
1898

Little Apples
And Other Early Stories
2016

خرس، خواستگاری، تاتیانا رپینا
1900

Classical Student
1883

Eleven Stories
1975

Une banale histoire
2000

Betrothed
1903

نصر لا لزوم له
2019

Toneel compleet
1956

The Black Monk
1894

A Tragedian in Spite of Himself
2001

The Party and Other Stories
1984

The Sixth Ward
1892

Kimliğini Saklayan Adamın Öyküsü
Öyküler
2021
في الخور
1900
სიტყვიერების მასწავლებელი
2018

Agafya
1886

Exam for Rank
2014

رسالة إلى جاري العالم
2025
The Oxford Chekhov
1964

Four Plays and Three Jokes
2009

Early Short Stories, 1883-1888
1982

المصيبة
1885

El regne de les dones
1894

Ο Γλάρος - Θείος Βάνιας - Πρόταση Γάμου - Η Αρκούδα
2011

Rothschild's Fiddle
1894

Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays
2004

Дамата с кученцето и други разкази
2015

Sleepy
1888

A Very Russian Christmas
The Greatest Russian Holiday Stories of All Time
2016

A Slander
1901

Five Plays
1887

The Wedding
A Scene in One Act
1963

من دون وظيفة
1885

At a Summer Villa
1886

A Problem
2011

Stephen Fry Presents A Selection of Anton Chekhov's Short Stories
2008

Руководство для желающих жениться
2011

الهارب
1887

Jutustused
1979

Doktor Çehov'dan Öyküler
2010

A Trifle from Life
1886

The House with the Mezzanine
1896

The Beauties
Essential Stories
1888

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
1942

The Three Sisters
1900

The Chorus Girl
1886

Frost
2011

The Bet and Other Stories
1889

The Seagull
1895

Cuentos breves para leer en el bus 1
2013

A Doctor's Visit
2020

الشبح الذي جاء يعتذر
2019

100 Selected Stories
2023

Cuentos completos, 1885-1886
1961

De dame met het hondje en andere verhalen
2020

Longer Stories from the Last Decade
1993

The Best Short Stories of All Time, Volume III
2013

At Christmas Time
2001

Cinco novelas cortas
2012

A Story Without an End
1886

The Bishop and Other Stories
1902

An Actor's End
1886

اللعوب
1892

50 Greatest Short Stories
2015

Fifty-Two Stories
1883

A Living Chattel
1882

Oysters
2020

Platonov
1930

Short Stories By Anton Chekhov
2010

Cuentos rusos
2008

The Beggar
1887

Kunduracı ile İblis
2021

Рассказы. Повести. 1888—1891
2019

The Brute & Other Farces
2000

In The Dark
1886

The Lady with the Dog & Other Stories
2012

The Best Short Stories of All Time, Volume VII
2020

المختار من أجمل القصص العالمية
2025

The Uncanny Reader
Stories from the Shadows
2015

A Father
2012

A Transgression
2011

Aborigines
2012

The Lament
2023

Петдесет велики разказвачи
2010

In a Strange Land and Other Stories
1903

Злоумышленник
2012

The Doctor
2011

My Life
1896

The Duel and Other Stories
2012

تمشک های تیغ دار
2025

يوميات مسافر
2009

Teatro
1968

Śmierć urzędnika i inne opowiadania
2000

The Helpmate
2014
In the Cart
1897

زودها
1885

The Complete Short Novels
1896

Пересолил
1885

Sin trama y sin final
99 consejos para escritores
2002

A Nervous Breakdown
1895

The Collected Short Stories, Vol 1
100 Short Stories
1880

The Plays of Anton Chekhov
1905

Enemies
1887

Relat d'un desconegut
2021

The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories
2020

Polinka
2014

Clássicos do conto russo
2015

The Selected Letters
1955

Late-Blooming Flowers and Other Stories
1882

Nişanlı
2023

The Shooting Party
1884

نامهها ١
1904

The Duel
1891

Best Short Stories of Anton Chekov
2000

Il monaco nero e altri racconti
1915

Two Plays by Tchekhof
The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard
1904

Small Fry
2011

The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
1899

في البيت
1887

Twelve Plays
1992

Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Bk. 3: About Truth, Freedom and Love
2011

Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series
1974

نمایشنامهها ٢
1904

7 Short Farces
1998

Anyuta
1886

The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
1899

LibriVox Short Story Collection 004
1970

الدبلوماسي
1885

The Kiss and the Duel and Other Stories
2000

Pescărușul • Unchiul Vania
1960

Mujikler
1879

كلب بني غامق
2006

الحارس الليلي
2025