Publisher, Blackstone Audio (November 2011)

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A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhov’s stories are often noted for their stream-of-consciousness style and their vast number. Raymond Carver once said, “It is not only the immense number of stories he wrote—for few, if any, writers have ever done more—it is the awesome frequency with which he produced masterpieces, stories that shrive us as well as delight and move us, that lay bare our emotions in ways only true art can accomplish.”

In The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Volume 1: 1882–1885, Blackstone has compiled forty-one of these delightful short stories, including:

A Living Chattel

Joy

At the Barber’s

An Enigmatic Nature

A Classical Student

The Death of a Government Clerk

The Trousseau

A Daughter of Albion

An Inquiry

Fat and Thin

A Tragic Actor

The Bird Market

A Slander

The Swedish Match

Choristers

The Album

Minds in Ferment

A Chameleon

In the Graveyard

Oysters

The Marshal’s Widow

Small Fry

In an Hotel

Boots

Nerves

A Country Cottage

Malingerers

The Fish

Gone Astray

The Huntsman

A Malefactor

The Head of the Family

A Dead Body

The Cook’s Wedding

In a Strange Land

Overdoing It

Old Age

Sorrow

Oh! The Public!

Mari d’Elle

The Looking-Glass

About the Author: Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) was the author of hundreds of short stories and several plays and is regarded by many as both the greatest Russian storyteller and the father of modern drama.