List of short stories by Anton Chekhov

The following is an incomplete list of short stories by Anton Chekhov. Lists of plays, novellas, and nonfiction by Chekhov can be found at: Anton Chekhov bibliography.

Chronological list

Title	Russian publication	Original title
"Rapture"	xx/01/1883	Радость
"An Incident at Law"	17/03/1883	Случай из судебной практики
"The Death of a Civil Servant [The Death of a Government Clerk]"	02/07/1883	Смерть чиновника
"The Daughter of Albion"	13/08/1883	Дочь Альбиона
"The Trousseau"	xx/08?/1883	Приданое
"Fat and Thin"	01/10/1883	Толстый и тонкий
"The Bird Market"	xx/11?/1883	В Москве на Трубной площади
"Choristers"	25/02/1884	Певчие
"The Complaints Book"	10/03/1884	Жалобная книга
"Minds in Ferment"	16/06/1884	Брожение умов
"The Chameleon"	08/09/1884	Хамелеон
"In the Graveyard"	06/10/1884	На кладбище
"Oysters"	xx/12/1884	Устрицы
"The Fish"	01/07/1885	Налим
"The Marshal’s Widow"	1885
"The Head of the Family"	1885
"The Cook’s Wedding"	1885
"A Dead Body"	1885
"Overdoing It"	1885
"Old Age"	1885
"Sorrow"	1885
"Mari d’Elle"	1885
"The Looking Glass"	1885
"The Huntsman"	1885
"The Malefactor [The Culprit]"	1885
"A Man of Ideas"	1885
"Sergeant Prishibeyev"	1885
"The Misfortune"	1885
"Small Fry"	1885
"A Dreadful Night"	03/11/1886	Недобрая ночь
"Panikhida"	1886
"Romance with Double-Bass"	1886
"Art"	1886
"A Blunder"	1886
"Children"	1886
"Misery"	1886
"An Upheaval"	1886
"The Requiem"	1886
"Anyuta"	1886
"The Privy Councillor"	1886
"Agafya"	1886
"A Story Without an End"	1886
"Love"	1886
"A Gentleman Friend"	1886
"A Day in the Country"	1886
"A Misfortune [A Calamity]"	1886
"A Trifle from Life"	1886
"Difficult People"	1886
"In the Court"	1886
"The Witch"	1886
"An Incident"	1886
"On the Road"	1886
"Grisha"	1886
"Kids"	1886
"Revenge"	1886
"Easter Night"	1886 (1887)
"The Little Joke [A Joke]"	1886
"The Objet d’Art [A Work of Art]"	1886
"The Chorus Girl"	1886
"Dreams"	1886
"The Orator"	1886
"Calchas" (later adapted into the play Swansong)	1886
"Van'ka"	1886
"Verochka"	1887
"A Drama"	1887
"Typhus"	1887
"Notes from the Journal of a Quick-Tempered Man"	1887
"The Reed-Pipe"	1887
"The Kiss"	1887
"The Beggar"	1887
"An Inadvertence"	1887
"Shrove Tuesday"	1887
"A Bad Business"	1887
"Home"	1887
"The Cossack"	1887
"Volodya"	1887
"Happiness"	1887
"Zinotchka"	1887
"The Doctor"	1887
"The Runaway"	1887
"The Cattle-Dealers"	1887
"In Trouble"	1887
"Boys"	1887
"Kashtanka"	1887
"A Lady’s Story"	1887
"The Lion and The Sun" (Text)	1887
"A Story Without a Title"	1888
"Lights"	1888
"No Comment"	1888
"Let Me Sleep [Sleepy]"	1888
"The Steppe [The Story of a Journey]"	1888
"An Awkward Business"	1888
"The Beauties"	1888
"The Party"	1888
"A Nervous Breakdown"	1888
"The Cobbler and the Devil"	1888
"The Bet"	1889
"The Princess"	1889
"A Dreary Story [A Boring Story]"	1889
"Thieves"	1890
"Gusev"	1890
"Peasant Woman [Peasant Wives]"	1891
"The Duel"	1891
"My Wife"	1892
"The Butterfly [The Grasshopper] [The Fidget]"	1892
"After the Theatre"	1892
"In Exile"	1892
"Neighbours"	1892
"Ward Number Six [Ward No. 6]"	1892
"Terror [Fear]"	1892
"Fragment"	1892
"The Story of a Commercial Venture"	1892
"From a Retired Teacher’s Notebook"	1892
"A Fishy Affair"	1892
"An Anonymous Story"	1893
"The Black Monk"	1894
"The Teacher of Literature"	1894
"Rothschild's Violin"	1894
"The Student"	1894
"Anna on the Neck [The Order of St. Anne]"	1895
"His Wife [The Helpmate]"	1895
"Murder"	1895
"Whitebrow"	1895
"Ariadne"	1895
"An Artist’s Story [The House with the Mezzanine]"	1896
"My Life"	1896
"Peasants"	1897
"The Savage"	1897
"At Home"	1897
"In the Cart [The Schoolmistress]"	1897
"The Little Trilogy: A Hard Case [The Man in the Case] [The Man in the Shell]"	1898
"The Little Trilogy: Gooseberries"	1898
"The Little Trilogy: Concerning Love [About Love]"	1898
"A Case History [A Medical Case] [A Doctor's Visit]"	1898
"Ionitch [Ionych]"	1898
"Doctor Startsev"	1898
"The Darling"	1898
"All Friends Together"	1898
"New Villa"	1899
"On Official Duty"	1899
"The Lady with the Dog"	1899
"At Christmas Time"	1900
"In the Hollow [In the Ravine]"	1900
"The Bishop"	1902
"A Marriageable Girl [The Fiancée] [The Betrothed]"	1903

Chronologic grouping

The following 201 of Chekhov's short stories are freely available in English translation from Eldritch Press' page on ibiblio. Chronological information was obtained from the same website.

1882–1885

• "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 a 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"

1886

• "Art"
• "A Blunder"
• "Children"
• "Misery"
• "An Upheaval"
• "An Actor's End"
• "The Requiem"
• "Anyuta"
• "Ivan Matveyitch"
• "The Witch"
• "A Story Without an End"
• "A Joke"
• "Agafya"
• "A Nightmare"
• "Grisha"
• "Love"
• "Easter Eve"
• "Ladies"
• "Strong Impressions"
• "A Gentleman Friend"
• "A Happy Man"
• "The Privy Councillor"
• "A Day in the Country"
• "At a Summer Villa"
• "Panic Fears"
• "The Chemist's Wife"
• "Not Wanted"
• "The Chorus Girl"
• "The Schoolmaster"
• "A Troublesome Visitor"
• "The Husband"
• "A Misfortune"
• "A Pink Stocking"
• "Martyrs"
• "The First-Class Passenger"
• "Talent"
• "The Dependents"
• "The Jeune Premier"
• "In the Dark"
• "A Trivial Incident"
• "A Tripping Tongue"
• "A Trifle from Life"
• "Difficult People"
• "In the Court"
• "A Peculiar Man"
• "Mire"
• "Dreams"
• "Hush!"
• "Excellent People"
• "An Incident"
• "The Orator"
• "A Work of Art"
• "Who Was To Blame?"
• "Van'ka"
• "On the Road"

1887

• "Champagne"
• "Frost"
• "The Beggar"
• "Enemies"
• "Darkness"
• "Polinka"
• "Drunk"
• "An Inadvertence"
• "Verotchka"
• "Shrove Tuesday"
• "A Defenceless Creature"
• "A Bad Business"
• "Home"
• "The Lottery Ticket"
• "Too Early!"
• "Typhus"
• "In Passion Week"
• "A Mystery"
• "The Cossack"
• "The Letter"
• "An Adventure"
• "The Examining Magistrate"
• "Aborigines"
• "Volodya"
• "Happiness"
• "Bad Weather"
• "A Play"
• "A Transgression"
• "From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man"
• "Uprooted"
• "A Father"
• "A Happy Ending"
• "In the Coach-House"
• "Zinotchka"
• "The Doctor"
• "The Pipe"
• "An Avenger"
• "The Post"
• "The Runaway"
• "A Problem"
• "The Old House"
• "The Cattle Dealers"
• "Expensive Lessons"
• "The Lion and the Sun"
• "In Trouble"
• "The Kiss"
• "Boys"
• "Kashtanka"
• "A Lady's Story"

1888–1895

• "A Story Without a Title"
• "Sleepy"
• "The Steppe"
• "Lights"
• "The Beauties"
• "The Party"
• "A Nervous Breakdown"
• "The Shoemaker and the Devil"
• "The Bet"
• "The Princess"
• "A Dreary Story"
• "The Horse-Stealers"
• "Gusev"
• "Peasant Wives"
• "The Duel"
• "The Wife"
• "The Grasshopper"
• "After the Theatre"
• "In Exile"
• "Neighbours"
• "Ward No. 6"
• "Terror"
• "An Anonymous Story"
• "The Two Volodyas"
• "The Black Monk"
• "A Woman's Kingdom"
• "Rothschild's Fiddle"
• "The Student"
• "The Teacher of Literature"
• "At a Country House"
• "The Head Gardener's Story"
• "Three Years"
• "The Helpmate"
• "Whitebrow"
• "Anna on the Neck"
• "The Murder"
• "Ariadne"

1896–1904

• "An Artist's Story"
• "My Life"
• "Peasants"
• "The Petchenyeg"
• "At Home"
• "The Schoolmistress"
• "The Man in a Case"
• "Gooseberries"
• "About Love"
• "Ionitch"
• "A Doctor's Visit"
• "The Darling"
• "The New Villa"
• "On Official Duty"
• "The Lady with the Dog"
• "At Christmas Time"
• "In the Ravine"
• "The Bishop"
• "Betrothed"

References

2. http://chehov.niv.ru/chehov/text/rasskazy.htm

External links

• The Works of Anton Chekhov at The University of Adelaide Library
• Short stories by Anton Chekhov at Gutenberg
• Eldritch Press at ibidlio.org
• Chekhov, Anton (2009). Sekirin, Peter (ed.). A Night in the Cemetery: And Other Stories of Crime and Suspense. New York: Pegasus. p. 320. ISBN 978-1605980591.