CHEKHOV, ANYONE?

At a Summer Villa The eight-year itch. You kind of have to feel sorry for Pavel Ivanitch Vyhodtsev, don't you? Okay, so he's a b...

A Pink Stocking Hey, Mr. Pavel Petrovitch Somov spell this: Misogynist. If I were his wife,  I'd stick that pink stocking up his you...

The Death of a Government Clerk You wouldn't think a story that ends with a man dying would be very funny -- but it is. Well, it...

Fat and Thin The story is very short but there's a lot to chew on. (He-he-he!) The fat and thin man know each other from their schoo...

A Blunder Strike while the iron is hot. This is a twisted story. Usually the parents are out to protect their daughter from the horny te...

A Country Cottage "Hell is other people" as Sartre once wrote and Sasha and Varya would most certainly agree. Especially if the ...

A Joke And the punchline is he's miserable. Big hero with the sled convinces young woman to go down the hill. Nadenka is terrified. ...