Anton Chekhov needs no special introduction. His works and performances make people stop in their tracks and hear something really important and worth their attention. Only...

Where does love come from? How far questions of personal happiness are of consequence in love? This audio book collection of stories by Anton Chekhov is united by the theme of...

Kashtanka, a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its eponymous heroine, a fox-faced, reddish...

The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another mans wife, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, amid dreams of starting a...

On the Eve appeared in 1860, two years before Fathers and Sons, Turgenevs most famous novel. It is set in the prior decade (by the end of the novel, the Crimean War (1853-56) has...

Anton Chekhov's iconic plays including some of the unfamiliar short pieces such as The Wedding, and some of the more established classics such as The Cherry Orchard. Chekhov...

The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge of a provincial lunatic asylum,...

The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her story is universal but not, I think, banal despite a surprise ending which...

Anton Chekhov, perhaps better known as a world famous classical playwright for works such as Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard was also a prolific short story writer. The...

To tell the truth, this story A trip to Polesye is not so much complicated with philosophical or psychological ideas. In this story author had another goal to describe the...