Great Books and Classics

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

All links verified on or after March 14, 2017

List of Works
[The Black Monk] [The Cherry Orchard] [A Dull Story] [In Exile] [Rothschild's Fiddle] [The Seagull] [Uncle Vanya]

The Black Monk (1894)

HTML (9 pages, indexed) at the University of Virginia Electronic Text center (Translated by Constance Garnett)
HTML (Single page, 76KB) at Eldritch Press (Translated by Constance Garnett)
Text File (414 KB; 157 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg, includes The Black Monk and 5 other stories (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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Paperback edition of Anton Chekhov : Stories, translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; 30 stories including Rothschild's Fiddle, In Exile, A Boring Story, and The Black Monk (Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub, 2000, 528 pg).

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The Cherry Orchard (1904)

HTML (Single page, 128KB) at Eldritch Press (Translated by Julius West)
Russian HTML (Single page, 104 KB) at Yevgeny Peskin's Public Electronic Library
Text File (398 KB; 152 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg, includes The Cherry Orchard and 7 other plays (Translated by Julius West)

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Paperback edition of Chekhov for the Stage: The Seagull/Uncle Vanya/The Three Sisters/The Cherry Orchard/4 Plays in 1 Volume, translations by Milton Ehre (Northwestern Univ Pr, 1993, 240 pg).
Paperback, Dover Thrift Editions (Dover Pubns, 1991, 49 pg).

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A Dull Story (or, A Dreary Story) (1889) [gbf(50)]

HTML (Single page, 137KB) at 201 Stories by Anton Chekhov (Translated by Constance Garnett)
HTML (454 KB; 170 KB zipped; plain text also available) at Project Gutenberg, includes A Dreary Story and 8 other stories (Translated by Constance Garnett)
Russian HTML (Single page) at Maxim Moshkov's Library

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Paperback edition of Anton Chekhov : Stories, translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; 30 stories including Rothschild's Fiddle, In Exile, A Boring Story, and The Black Monk (Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub, 2000, 528 pg).
Paperback edition of Ward Number Six and Other Stories, translations by Ronald Hingley; 7 stories including A Dreary Story (Oxford Univ Pr, 1999, 272 pg).

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In Exile (c. 1890?) [gbf(HS)]

HTML (Single page, 26 KB) at Classic Reader (Translator unknown)
HTML (384 KB; 143 KB zipped; plain text also available) at Project Gutenberg, includes In Exile and 20 other stories (Translator unknown)

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Paperback edition of Anton Chekhov : Stories, translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; 30 stories including Rothschild's Fiddle, In Exile, A Boring Story, and The Black Monk (Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub, 2000, 528 pg).

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Rothschild's Fiddle (1894) [GBF(HS)]

HTML (Single page, 26 KB) at Eldritch Press (Translated by Marian Fell)
Text File (418 KB; 161 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg, includes Rothschild's Fiddle and 11 other stories (Translated by Constance Garnett)

Available at Amazon.com: (This site earns a commission on purchases made via these links)
Paperback edition of Anton Chekhov : Stories, translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; 30 stories including Rothschild's Fiddle, In Exile, A Boring Story, and The Black Monk (Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub, 2000, 528 pg).

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The Seagull (1896)

HTML (5 pages, indexed) at Classic Reader (Translator unknown)
Russian HTML (Single page, 107 KB) at Yevgeny Peskin's Public Electronic Library
HTML (130 KB; 47 KB zipped; plain text also available) at Project Gutenberg (Translator unknown)

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Paperback edition of Chekhov for the Stage: The Seagull/Uncle Vanya/The Three Sisters/The Cherry Orchard/4 Plays in 1 Volume, translations by Milton Ehre (Northwestern Univ Pr, 1993, 240 pg).
Paperback edition, tranlated by Oliver F. Murphy (Branden Publishing Co, 1980).

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Uncle Vanya (1896) [GBF]

HTML (5 pages, indexed) at Classic Reader (Translator unknown)
HTML (Single page, 112 KB) at Eldritch Press (Translated by Marian Fell; revised by James Rusk)
Russian HTML (Single page, 97 KB) at Yevgeny Peskin's Public Electronic Library
HTML (117 KB; 42 KB zipped; plain text also available) at Project Gutenberg (Translator unknown)

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Paperback edition of Chekhov for the Stage: The Seagull/Uncle Vanya/The Three Sisters/The Cherry Orchard/4 Plays in 1 Volume, translations by Milton Ehre (Northwestern Univ Pr, 1993, 240 pg).
Paperback, Dover Thrift Editions (Dover Pubns, 1998).