Here are eleven short stories by Anton Chekhov, one of the finest masters of what is acknowledged to be a difficult genre. There is the richly comic Oh! The Public, about a hassled ticket inspector, a wry look at morals and manners in The Chorus Girl, and the melancholic tale of a cab driver in Misery. Perhaps the finest of all is the novella In The Ravine, a minutely observed look at life in a village through the eyes of one family. All the characters come to life with their foibles, their strengths and their hopes.
- Oh! the Public
- The Chorus Girl
- The Trousseau
- A Story Without a Title
- Children
- Misery
- Fat and Thin
- The Beggar
- Hush!
- The Orator
- An Actor's End
- In the Ravine

 

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