Anton Chekhov - Stories from 1889-1893

This post gives a summary of the stories, novellas (if any) and plays of Anton Chekhov from 1889 to 1893. If you know of things which should be added, please let me know.

Short stores

1889

• "The Bet"
  
  Note:
  The bass of an episode of "The Twilight Zone" TV series written by Rod Serling.
  
  Summary:
  A banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bet_(short_story)
  
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1732
  
  
• "A Dreary Story"
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1883
  
  

1890

• "Gusev"
  
  Note:
  Also "Goussiev"
  
  Summary:
  http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=183
  
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27411
  
  
  
  This is one of my favorites!
  
• "The Horse Stealers"
  
  Note:
  A quotation:
  "If one reasons from science, of course, there are no devils, for it's a superstition; but if one looks at it simply, as you and I do, there are devils ... "
  
  Summary:
  http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=11988
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13409
  
  

1891

• "The Duel"
  
  Note:
  See the entry in the Novella section *.
  
  
• "Peasant Wives"
  
  Summary:
  http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=11917
  
  

1892

• "A Boring Story"
  
  Summary:
  http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=814
  
  
• "After the Theater"
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1732
  
  
• "The Grasshopper"
  
  Summary:
  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/chekhov/section6.rhtml
  http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=11983
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1883
  
  
• "In Exile"
  
  Summary:
  http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=11866
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27411
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1732
  
  
• "Neighbors"
  
  Summary:
  http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=1011
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13505
  
  
• "Terror"
  
  Note:
  This story is about the strangeness and uncertainty in ordinary life. How can we know what is right? How can we tell the good from the evil?
  
  Summary:
  http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=1541
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13413
  
  
• "Ward No. 6"
  
  Note:
  Some sources put this as written in 1890.
  
  Summary:
  This is a long story (45 pages) in which we encounter the conflict of story versus philosophy, individuality versus abstraction. A lazy mental hospital administrator befreinds a patient and eventually becomes a patient himself.
  
  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/chekhov/section11.rhtml
  
  http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=813
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13409
  
  

1893

• "An Anonymous Story"
  
  See "novella" section for this.
  
  
• "The Two Volodyas"
  
  Summary:
  http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=958
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13416
  
  

Novella

1891

The Duel

Note:
Wikipedia called this a "short story" as opposed to a "novella."

Summary:
http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=304

Text:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13505

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Duel_(Chekhov-Garnett)

1893

An Anonymous Story

Note:
Alternate translations: The Story of an Unknown Man/The Story of a Nobody

Summary:
http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=12091

Text:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13415

Plays

1889

• A Tragedian in Spite of Himself
  
  Note:
  Also, "A Reluctant Tragic Hero"
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7986
  
  
• The Wedding
  
  Note:
  One act.
  
  Text:
  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7986
  
  
• The Wood Demon
  
  Note:
  A four-act comedy
  
  

1891

• The Festivities
  
  

References

[C] A. Chekhov

• biography on Wikipedia
  
• bibliography on Wikipedia
  
• Short story list on Wikipedia
  
• text of stories of Anton Chekhov on gutenberg.org
  

[Y] Avrahm Yarmolinsky (translator and editor), The Unknown Chekhov, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
[Y'] Avrahm Yarmolinsky (Introduction), The Portable Chekhov, Penguin, 1977.