Anton Chekhov

Author · 302 books

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

Series

Contos de Tchékhov - Relógio d'Água

Series · 2 books

By Anton Chekhov

Cuentos breves para leer en el bus

Series · 1 book

By Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jack London, Bret Harte, and more

Very Christmas

Series · 6 books

By Irene Nemirovsky, James Joyce, Alphonse Daudet, and more

Шедьоври на разказа с неочакван край

Series · 1 book

By Шърли Джаксън, Jack London, Саки, and more

الأعمال المختارة

Series · 2 books

By Anton Chekhov, أنطون تشيخوف

Books

A Country Cottage

2011

The Two Volodyas

1893

In the Ravine

1900

أنطون تشيخوف

مؤلفات مختارة في 4 مجلدات

1981

Stories of Anton Chekhov

1932

Chekhov

Stories for Our Time

2018

The Looking Glass

1885

The Ninny

1833

The Cherry Orchard

1903

The Kiss

1887

Fat and Thin

1883

Verotchka

2000

The Chorus Girl And Other Stories

1916

The Big Book of Christmas

140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols

2020

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

1903

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

Revenge

1886

The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91

1881

In Exile

1892

An Upheaval

1886

Anton Chekhov Collection

2012

Five Comic One-Act Plays

1999

Grief

2023

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

Ariadne and Other Stories

2012

The Woman in the Case

1953

The Death of a Clerk

1883

Selected Works

Stories

1973

The School Mistress

2004

The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume 2

1886

A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire

1893

Selected Stories

1898

Little Apples

And Other Early Stories

2016

Classical Student

1883

Eleven Stories

1975

Une banale histoire

2000

Betrothed

1903

The Black Monk

1894

A Tragedian in Spite of Himself

2001

The Sixth Ward

1892

სიტყვიერების მასწავლებელი

2018

Agafya

1886

Exam for Rank

2014

Four Plays and Three Jokes

2009

Early Short Stories, 1883-1888

1982

El regne de les dones

1894

Rothschild's Fiddle

1894

Anton Chekhov's Selected Plays

2004

A Very Russian Christmas

The Greatest Russian Holiday Stories of All Time

2016

A Slander

1901

Five Plays

1887

At a Summer Villa

1886

A Problem

2011

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

2008

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

A Doctor's Visit

2020

الشبح الذي جاء يعتذر

2019

100 Selected Stories

2023

De dame met het hondje en andere verhalen

2020

Longer Stories from the Last Decade

1993

At Christmas Time

2001

A Story Without an End

1886

The Bishop and Other Stories

1902

An Actor's End

1886

50 Greatest Short Stories

2015

Fifty-Two Stories

1883

A Living Chattel

1882

Oysters

2020

Platonov

1930

Short Stories By Anton Chekhov

2010

The Beggar

1887

The Brute & Other Farces

2000

In The Dark

1886

The Lady with the Dog & Other Stories

2012

The Uncanny Reader

Stories from the Shadows

2015

A Father

2012

A Transgression

2011

Aborigines

2012

The Lament

2023

In a Strange Land and Other Stories

1903

The Doctor

2011

My Life

1896

The Duel and Other Stories

2012

Śmierć urzędnika i inne opowiadania

2000

The Helpmate

2014

The Complete Short Novels

1896

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

The Selected Letters

1955

Late-Blooming Flowers and Other Stories

1882

The Shooting Party

1884

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

Twelve Plays

1992

Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

Bk. 3: About Truth, Freedom and Love

2011

7 Short Farces

1998

Anyuta

1886

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

1899

LibriVox Short Story Collection 004

1970

The Kiss and the Duel and Other Stories

2000

The Tales and Stories (Compilation)

The Death of a Government Clerk, The Fat and the Thin, The Chameleon, Surgery, The Horse Surname, Kashtanka, Ward No. 6, The Man in the Case, Ionych, About Love and others

1888