Biography of Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Jan 29, 1860 - Jul 15, 1904) was a Russian physician and supreme short story writer and playwright. He was the third of six children. His father was a grocer, painter and religious fanatic with a mercurial temperament who "thrashed" his children and was likely emotionally abusive to his wife. Chekhov, like Dickens, was no stranger to financial hardship and in 1875 his father took the family and fled to Moscow to escape creditors. Chekhov stayed behind for three more years to finish school. He paid for his tuition by catching and selling goldfinches and dispensing private tutoring lessons, and selling short sketches to the newspaper. He sent any money he could spare money to his family in Moscow. Chekhov is considered an exemplar author in the genre of Realism. A child-family separation theme plays out in several of Chekhov's stories including Vanka, The Steppe, and Sleepy.
Plays by Anton Chekhov
Short stories by Anton Chekhov
- "Anna on the Neck"
- A Bad Business
- A BLUNDER
- A Chameleon
- A Classical Student
- A Country Cottage
- A Daughter of Albion
- A Day in the Country
- A Dead Body
- A Defenceless Creature
- A Doctor's Visit
- A Dreary Story
- A Father
- A Gentleman Friend
- A Happy Ending
- A Happy Man
- A Joke
- A Lady's Story
- A Living Chattel
- A Malefactor
- A Misfortune
- A Mystery
- A Nervous Breakdown
- A NIGHTMARE
- A Peculiar Man
- A Pink Stocking
- A Play
- A Problem
- A Slander
- A Story Without a Title
- A Story Without an End
- A Tragic Actor
- A Transgression
- A Trifle from Life
- A Tripping Tongue
- A Trivial Incident
- A Troublesome Visitor
- A Woman's Kingdom
- A WORK OF ART
- ABORIGINES
- About Love
- After the Theatre
- Agafya
- An Actor's End
- An Adventure
- An Anonymous Story
- An Artist's Story
- An Avenger
- An Enigmatic Nature
- An Inadvertence
- An Incident
- An Inquiry
- An Upheaval
- Anyuta
- Ariadne
- Art
- At a Country House
- At Christmas Time
- At Home
- At The Barber's
- Bad Weather
- Betrothed
- Boots
- Boys
- Champagne
- Children
- Choristers
- Darkness
- Difficult People
- Dreams
- Drunk
- Easter Eve
- Enemies
- Excellent People
- Expensive Lessons
- Fat and Thin
- From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man
- Frost
- Gone Astray
- Gooseberries
- Grisha
- Gusev
- Happiness
- Home
- Hush!
- In a Strange Land
- In an Hotel
- In Exile
- In Passion Week
- In the Coach-House
- In the Court
- In the Dark
- In the Graveyard
- In the Ravine
- In Trouble
- Ionitch
- Ivan Matveyitch
- Joy
- Kashtanka
- Ladies
- Lights
- Love
- Malingerers
- Mari D'Elle
- Martyrs
- Minds in Ferment
- Mire
- Misery
- My Life
- Neighbours
- Nerves
- Not Wanted
- Oh! the Public
- Old Age
- On Official Duty
- On the Road
- Overdoing It
- Oysters
- Panic Fears
- Peasant Wives
- Peasants
- Polinka
- Rothschild's Fiddle
- Shrove Tuesday
- Sleepy
- Small Fry
- Sorrow
- Strong Impressions
- Talent
- Terror
- The Album
- The Beauties
- The Beggar
- The Bet
- The Bird Market
- The Bishop
- The Black Monk
- The Cattle-Dealers
- The Chemist's Wife
- The Chorus Girl
- The Cook's Wedding
- The Cossack
- The Darling
- The Death of A Government Clerk
- The Dependents
- The Doctor
- The Duel
- The Examining Magistrate
- The First-Class Passenger
- The Fish
- The Grasshopper
- The Head of the Family
- The Head-Gardener's Story
- The Helpmate
- The Horse-Stealers
- The Huntsman
- The Husband
- The Jeune Premier
- The Kiss
- The Lady with the Dog
- The Letter
- The Lion and the Sun
- The Looking-Glass
- The Lottery Ticket
- The Man in a Case
- THE MARSHAL'S WIDOW
- The Murder
- The New Villa
- The Old House
- The Orator
- The Party
- The Petchenyeg
- The Pipe
- The Post
- The Princess
- The Privy Councillor
- The Requiem
- The Runaway
- The Schoolmaster
- The Schoolmistress
- The Shoemaker and the Devil
- The Steppe
- The Student
- The Swedish Match
- The Teacher of Literature
- The Trousseau
- The Two Volodyas
- The Wife
- The Witch
- Three Years
- Too Early!
- Typhus
- Uprooted
- Vanka
- Verotchka
- Volodya
- Ward No. 6
- Whitebrow
- Who Was to Blame?
- Zinotchka