The average word count comes out to 2315 words. Here are the first 100+ stories we reviewed together.

So please join us in reading these stories and let us know what you think. We are using a 10 point scale with five being good and ten being one of the best short stories ever written. We are bound to disagree with each other and probably with you too. We are giving our opinions on the stories as we read them, probably slanted with 20th and 21st century points of view. We are two Letters majors who happen to share a love of literature. Now two decades later I’m content to simply review his works from the perspective of a dad at 40. However, it is more likely I was drawn to the fact he was a physician writer and I knew I had aspirations to follow his lead. I’d like to think the initial admiration of Chekhov was due to his ability to convey the human condition in a medium that didn’t require footnotes (in contrast to Proust or just about anything else I was supposed to read). My first story was “Misery”… I was instantly smitten. Steve: The first time I remember reading Chekhov was during a “World Cultures and Civilizations” class. I wanted to go back and see what I think of Chekhov today, two decades later. I’ve found myself both reading and writing crime stories having been turned off by the drudgery of modern literature (e.g.

It’s been years since I’ve read any of his works. (I know, short stories in a novel class, but the rest of the syllabus had epics.) Steve and I took a Modern European novel course together where we read some of short story master’s tales. After that I started looking for Chekhov stories. It was Chekhov’s “The Bet.” I don’t think I finished reading the how-to book (and to this day I am not a fast reader), but the story blew me away. There was a sample short story that I was supposed to read and time myself. I had checked out a speed reading book from the library because I wanted to read more books faster. Travis: I first came across Chekhov one summer either between my high school and college or my freshman and sophomore year at the University of Oklahoma. We hope to do five a week, one a day, with the weekends off. (Yeah, 2010 or 2015 would have made a better number, but when inspiration strikes…) Both of us will write a review of the stories as we go through them chronologically. We plan to start the reviews on January 29, 2014, the date of Chekhov’s 154th birthday. After that we will try to find other works that have been translated and published. We will use the 201 stories originally posted by Eldritch Press as translated by Constance Garnett. Welcome to the Chekhov Short’s site where two college buddies, Steve and Travis, try to read all of the English translated short stories of Anton Chekhov in a year.

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