The Undiscovered Chekhov

CONTENTS

Foreword by Spalding Gray

Introduction and Acknowledgments

PART ONE

Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town

On the Train

The Trial

Confession—or Olya, Zhenya, Zoya: A Letter

Village Doctors

An Unsuccessful Visit

A Hypnotic Seance

The Cross

The Cat

How i Came to Be Lawfully Wed

From the Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper

A Fool; or, The Retired Sea Captain: A Scene from an Unwritten Vaudeville Play

In Autumn

The Grateful German

A Sign of the Times

From the Diary of a Young Girl

The Stationmaster

A Womans Revenge

O Women, Women!

Two Letters

To Speak or Be Silent: A Tale

After the Fair

At the Pharmacy

On Mortality: A Carnival Tale

A Serious Step

The Good German

First Aid

Intrigues

PART TWO

This and That: Four Vignettes

Elements Most Often Found in Novels, Short Stories, Etc.

Supplementary Questions for the Statistical Census, Submitted by Antosha Chekhonte

Questions Posed by a Mad Mathematician

A Lawyer’s Romance: A Protocol

Questions and Answers

America in Rostov on the Don

Mr. Gulevitch, Writer, and the Drowned Man

The Potato and the Tenor

Mayonnaise

At a Patient’s Bedside

My Love

Doctor’s Advice

A Glossary of Terms for Young Ladies

A New illness and an Old Cure

Dates of First Publication in Periodicals