Chekhov's stories for children

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.

Content

A Bad Business

A Blunder

Aborigines

About Love

A Chameleon

A Classical Student

A Country Cottage

A Daughter Of Albion

A Day In The Country

A Dead Body

A Defenseless Creature

A Doctor's Visit

A Father

After The Theatre

Agafya

A Gentleman Friend

A Happy Ending

A Happy Man

A Joke

A Lady's Story

A Living Chattle

A Malefactor

A Misfortune

A Mystery

An Actor's End

An Adventure

An Anonymous Story

An Artist's Story

An Avenger

An Enigmatic Nature

A Nervous Breakdown

A Nightmare

An Inadvertence

An Incident

An Inquiry

Anna On The Neck

An Upheaval

Anyuta

A Peculiar Man

A Pink Stocking

A Play

A Problem

Ariadne

Art

A Slander

A Story Without An End

A Story Without A Title

At A Country House

At A Summer Villa

At Christmas Time

At Home

A Tragic Actor

A Transgression

A Trifle From Life

A Tripping Tongue

A Trivial Incident

A Troublesome Visitor

At The Barber's

A Woman's Kingdom

A Work Of Art

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 Hotel

In A Strange Land

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 Matveyich

Joy

Kashtanka

Ladies

Lights

Love

Malingerers

Mari D'elle

Martyrs

Minds In Ferment

Mire

Misery

Nerves

Not Wanted

Oh! The Public!

Old Age

On Official Duty

On The Road

Overdoing It

Oysters

Panic Fears

Peasants

Peasant Wives

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 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-gardener's Story

The Head Of The Family

The Helpmate

The Horse Stealers

The House with the Mezzanine

The Huntsman

The Husband

The Juene Premier

The Kiss

The Lady with the Little 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 Safety Match

The Schoolmaster

The Schoolmistress

The Shoemaker And The Devil

The Slanderer

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