The first volume of the complete works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov includes his earliest satirical stories, sketches, and humorous pieces, which at the time were published under the pseudonym Antosha Chekhonte.
Contents
In a Railway Car
The Meeting of Spring (an essay)
The Sinner from Toledo
Additional Questions to Personal Forms of the Statistical Census, Offered by Antosha Chekhonte
The Wives of Artists
Life in Questions and Exclamations
If You Chased Two Hares, You Would Catch Neither
For the Apples
Forgot!!!
Tasks of a Mad Mathematician
The Green Braid (to a drawing by Chekhov)
And This One and That One—Letters and Telegrams
And This One and That One—Poetry and Prose
A Confession, or Olya, Zhenya, Zoya (a letter)
An Alarm-Clock Calendar for the Year 1882. March–April
School-Vacation Work of Naden’ka N (the institute girl)
Comical Advertisements and Announcements (Reported by Antosha Chekhonte)
Antosha Ch.’s Advertising Office
My Anniversary
At the Wolf’s Trap
Father
Before the Wedding
Petrov Day
A Letter to a Learned Neighbor
In an American Way
Salon de Vариété
Temperaments
The Court
A Thousand and One Passions
What Is Most Often Encountered in Novels, Novellas, etc.