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An on-going collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Primary Format : Literature Language : en Also Listed as: City : Long Branch State/Province : NJ User Tags: Alan Davis Drake Anton Chekhov audiobook Russian literature short stories short story User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Anton Chekhov - Collected Stories Podcasts Methings.com listings of Anton Chekhov - Collected Stories Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

The Event / The Incident 15:43 A very young brother and sister's cat suddenly has three kittens. Their wishes instantly fall counter to their parents. Surprises abound. Recording © 2010 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old Age 14:22 Architect Usielkov visits his home town to restore the cemetery church. He meets his old attorney Shapkin and hears the fate of his ex-wife of 20 years, Recording © 2010 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Champagne 15:33 Nikolay leads a dreary life at a remote railway station in the south. Dropping a bottle of champagne on New Year's Eve is considered by his wife as a bad omen. With his miserable life, what can happen worse? Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Inadvertence 11:10 Strizhin comes home semi-drunk from a christening, inadvertently drinks something dangerous, and proceeds to get scolded by everyone he meets— for unexpected reasons. Classically Chekhov. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Difficult People 21:35 Duplicate recording. The Shiryaevs: a highly dysfunctional family. At the center of the family's challenges sits their angry father/husband. Like father, like son—and not surprisingly, like grandfather as well. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Requiem 15:38 Andrey Andreyitch attends Sunday mass at the village church and is confronted by Father Grigory's unexpectedly angry voice. Who could the regularly mild-mannered father be speaking to? And why? Recording © 2010 by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the Dark 12:03 The procurator's wife spots someone entering the kitchen window in the middle of the night. Is it a burglar or the young housemaid's fireman friend? Who can be sure of anything —in the dark? Recording © 2010 by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bet 20:08 A young, millionaire banker impulsively makes a young lawyer a 2 million bet. The banker says the lawyer can't stay in a jail-like environment for 5 years. The lawyer bets he can make it for 15. Who will win? Recording © 2010 by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Passion Week 13:35 Nine-year-old Mitka has been sent to confession on Passion Week by his mother. Here is short tale of a boy's view of the people he meets and the pure thoughts he has along the way. A wonderful contrast to Vanka. Recording © 2010 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vanka 12:05 Parentless nine-year-old Vanka has been sent to Moscow as a shoemaker's apprentice. He writes a secret letter of misery to his Grandfather back in his village, with a plea that he should bring the boy back home. Recording © 2010 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Horsey Name 09:33 The Major-General has a miserable tooth ache but refuses to have it pulled. His stewart suggests he use a conjuror but he can't remember the man's name. It has "something to do with a horse." Recording © 2010 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swan Song - A One Act Play for two characters —with an Introduction 36:01 An old comedic actor finds himself alone in the theater. He reminisces his disappointing life & is later joined by the theater's much older prompter. This play will be posted here for a few weeks & then removed. Recording © 2010 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tripping Tongue 10:01 A wife returns home to her husband after vacationing with a woman friend. As soon as she begins to outline their adventures, her tripping tongue stumbles over two conflicting statements. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chorus Girl 15:31 The chorus girl Pasha is sitting in her villa with Nikolai Petrovitch and there's a knock at the door. Nikolai hides and Pasha goes to the door. Story text included in the "lyrics" field. Read as you listen! Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Day in the Country 16:51 A May thunder storm approaches. Orphan Fyokla searches the town for the kindly old cobbler Terenty. Her brother Danilka's hand is caught in a hole of a tree out in the country. Complete text included in lyrics. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In an Hotel 07:42 Madame Nashatyrin complains to the hotel-keeper about the goings on in the next room. She's trying to protect her two daughters from that "den of iniquity" and its abominations. Complete text included in lyrics. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Country Cottage 05:35 Newlyweds Varya and Sasha walk along the platform of their little country station. They talk of their beautiful world and what they will have for dinner as they linger to watch an unexpected train arrive. Read by Alan Davis Drake. Copyright 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boys 16:25 Volodia returns home on a school break with his friend Tchetchevitsin. They have a master plan they would rather no one discover. Volodia's sisters are delighted, but his parents will be worried and furious. Recording copyright Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Avenger 13:35 "Shortly after finding his wife in flagrante delicto, Fyodor Fyodorovitch Sigaev was standing in Schmuck and Co.'s, the gunsmiths, selecting a suitable revolver." Here is Chekovian comedy at its best. Recording copyright Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lady with the Toy Dog 44:32 Dmitri Dimitrich meets a fascinating woman on the Yalta quay. Anna Sergueyevna is about to change their lives, although at first, she considers her actions unpardonable. Would we act much differently than they? Copyright Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Huntsman 13:15 Yegor Vlassitch on his daily hunt for game is surprised on the road by his wife, who he has not seen since Easter. He tells her: "Once the spirit of freedom has taken a man, you will never root it out of him." Recording copyright Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rothschild's Fiddle 28:45 At 70, coffin maker and violinist Yakov unexpectedly enters the final phase of his life. After 50 years of indifference, he experiences an unsettling revelation. Recording copyright Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joy 05:50 With surprise to all, late one night Mitya Kuldarov expresses supreme joy to his parents and his sister and brothers: "I am so delighted, Mamma! Do you know, now all Russia knows of me! All of Russia!" Studio recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Father 21:31 Old Musatov lives a dissipated life, living in drunken squalor, regularly begging off his three sons, who are forever generous to him. Just what kind of man is their father? What is Chekhov getting at? Studio recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Gentleman Friend 10:01 Vanda "found herself, on leaving the hospital, in a position she had never been in before: without a home to go to or a farthing in her pocket. What was she to do?" Studio recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Beautiful Girls An unnamed man relates in languorous detail two incidents in his life where he meets a beautiful girl. He compares the two, yet in typical Chekhov fashion, only the reader is left with drawing conclusions. Studio recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bad Weather On rainy days, hard working, sickly Kvashin does not return to his wife and mother-in-law at the summer villa. They both love and trust him immensely, yet it always seems to be raining. One day his wife visits him. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 3 Translators Tea Party Translations: Two Journalists, No Luck, and Playing Tricks A casual US group has made three marvelous translations of Chekhov stories. Read details in file tags. ("Playing Tricks" appeared earlier in this collection in a different translation "A Joke.") This live concert hall recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Slanderer At his daughter's wedding, Sergey Kapitonich, steals into the kitchen. On seeing the sturgeon, he emits a loud sound of delight --misheard as a kiss with his cook. He does a frightful job of recovering his reputation. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lion and the Sun Mayor Stepan Ivanovitch Kutsyn is desirous of receiving the Persian order of the Lion and the Sun. Here is how Kutsyn persuades a visiting Persian Magnate to give him the badge he passionately longs for. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Naughty Boy A brief, humorous tale of Kolia's threats to reveal the secret of sister Anna Zamblitskaya courtship with her suitor Ivan Lapkin. The naughty Kolia extorts payment after payment, until the couple... Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. PD text included. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tragic Actor Masha, the daughter of Sidoresky the police captain, first falls in love the with theatre and then Fenogenov, the tragic actor. All become trapped in unexpected lives. Read the public domain text as you listen. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Difficult People The Shiryaevs are a highly dysfunctional family. At the center of the family's challenges sits their angry father/husband Yevgraf Ivanovitch. Like father, like son—and not surprisingly, like grandfather as well. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Was She? Retired Col. Pyotr Ivanovitch tells a group of young ladies of his various exploits as a young man. A boastful story telling rogue with his own opinions about everyone, he can craft a story to fit the occasion. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whitebrow (Patch) Here is a rare Chekhovian snapshot of a puppy and a wolf as the central characters in another tale of misery. Recording of this public reading of "Patch," given in English at 2009 Chekhov Conference, is © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Text in the public domain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Typhus - With an introduction from Medicine and Surgery Magazine, 1918 A "Little Classic" Physicians May Have Overlooked, from 1918 Medicine & Surgery Journal. "Dr. Chekhov is too great a writer to impress us with his medical knowledge." Lt. Klimov rides the train from Petersburg to Moscow, not knowing he has Typhus. © 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website About Love - The third and final story in Chekhov's "The Little Trilogy" Over lunch the next day, Alehin tells Ivan Ivanovitch and Burkin that love is "unsatisfactory and irritating" and goes on to share his unrequited love experience with a married woman. Public domain text. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Was to Blame? Who IS to blame for the mice? The uncle, the cook, or the cat? Mmmm? Another light-hearted ditty from ole Anton. But is this, alas, truly light-hearted? Perhaps the nephew holds the true answer. Public domain text. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gooseberries - The second of three stories from Chekhov's "The Little Trilogy" Now, as promised, Ivan Ivanovitch tells Burkin and Alehin of his brother Nikolay's life-long dream to grow gooseberries, with allusions to Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" Text in the public domain. Recording © 2009 by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Old House — A Story Told by a Houseowner Before his old building is raised, a house owner gives an architect a tour of the building and shares his pessimistic view of life while revealing the intimate lives of some of its occupants. Text in the public domain. Recording © 2009 Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Letters - from Letters of Anton Chekhov To His Family and Friends Reading Chekhov's letters to brother Nikolay and to Madame Kiselyov are like reading his stories: personal, direct, thoughtful, with the main character AC himself. Read by Alan Davis Drake for CloudMountain. Text in the public domain. Recording © 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Classical Student When a 13-year-old student of classic Greek fails his exam, his hopeful mother expresses her displeasure and frustration —despite her son's pleading. Dramatization. Alan Davis Drake performs for CloudMountain. Text in the public domain. Recording © 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lottery Ticket While a content middle-class man withholds from his wife the day's winning lottery number, they both fantasize what the future would hold if she's won. Alan Davis Drake performs for CloudMountain. Text in the public domain. Recording © 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Pink Stocking A university man reads his wife's letter to her sister and discovers his "pink stockinged" wife to be semi-illiterate —unlike "blue stockinged" university women. Alan Davis Drake performs for CloudMountain. Text in the public domain. Recording © 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Inquiry A country gentleman wishes to inquire at the government office about a local case, but finds he must learn office the "language" before he can speak with anyone. Alan Davis Drake reads for CloudMountain. Text in the public domain. Recording © 2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Death of a Government Clerk While blissfully attending the opera, a government clerk sneezes on the bald head in front of him. He spends the rest of his life trying to get his apology accepted. Read by Alan Davis Drake for CloudMountain. Recording © 2009. Text in the public domain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Upheavel A newly appointed governess returns from a walk to find her mistress rummaging through her private things, in search of a stolen brooch. Read by Alan Davis Drake for CloudMountain. Recording © 2009. Text in the public domain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hush! A story which perhaps gives us some insight into Chekhov's full life, late night habits. Read, recorded, and mixed by Alan Drake for CloudMountain. Recording © 2009. Text in the public domain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Work of Art Another of Chekhov's medical stories; a poor family gives a work of art to their doctor as a reward for saving their only son's life. But this work of art is too unusual for everyone... Read, recorded, and mixed by Alan Drake for CloudMountain. © 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love and Loss: A Chekhov Sampler — Five Thematic Stories by Anton Chekhov • iPod/iTunes iPod Friendly Audiobook Sampler • Five podcasted stories: After the Theatre, An Enigmatic Nature, A Joke, Misery, and Love. Read, recorded, and mixed by Alan Drake in CloudMountain Studios. © 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tutor High school student Gregory Ziboroff tutors a younger boy. He deals not only with his reluctant charge but is also forced to navigate uncertain waters with the younger boy's father. It's uncertain who is in charge or who is the wiser. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Student A clerical student walks home in the dark night and meets two widows just before Easter, gives him much to reflect upon: relating the past to the present. Read for LibriVox by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Joke (Included in the audiobook sampler) A young man takes his friend Nadia sledding. Fearful though she is to ride, he plays a little joke on her as the zoom quickly down the hill. He whispers something into her ear that will haunt both of them —perhaps for the rest of their lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oysters A destitute father and son wander the streets of Moscow in search of food. The son's curiosity (and hunger) gets the better of him. Read for LibriVox. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fat and Thin Two childhood friends meet unexpectedly at the Station after many years of absence. In their brief attempts to return to former times, they find each other much different than childhood would have imagined them today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Head Gardener's Story Count N.'s gardener, Mihail Karlovitch, explains why he is always delighted to meet with verdicts of Not Guilty, "even when my conscience tells me the jury made a mistake in acquitting the criminal." "Faith in man is higher than any other consideration." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Misery (Included in the audiobook sampler) Iona, a penniless cab driver whose son has died just a few days earlier, sits in snow drifts and misery as he fails both to make a living wage and to gain sympathy from the people and patrons he meets. In the very end, he finds a sympathetic listener. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Album When adults take something seriously, children often take a different approach. Read for LibriVox by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Enigmatic Nature (Included in the audiobook sampler) A humorous story with ironic pathos. An agitated woman meets a novelist on the train. She reveals all. Read for LibriVox by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chemist's Wife Two men visit the Chemist's shop late at night and spend time flirting with the Chemist's wife. Read for LibriVox by Alan Davis Drake and Jodi Krangle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Story Without a Title What life may or may not be like in a medieval monastery. What have the monk's been missing? Read for LibriVox by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love (Included in the audiobook sampler) What is real love? A man discovers the answer through the years. Or does he? Read for LibriVox by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the Graveyard A group of associates walk through the graveyard and meet a disappointed actor. Read for LibriVox by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Problem Family honor? What is really important? A peek into the true nature of a young man. Read for LibriVox by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bird Market The bird market has a lot more to offer than birds. Chekhov's eye for detail reveals more than we might imagine on a stroll through the market. Read for LibriVox by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website After the Theater (Included in the audiobook sampler) After an evening at the theater, a young girl considers her life as if it were on the stage itself. Read for LibriVox by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Panic Fears The speaker describes the three times in his life when he felt the sense of great panic. Sometimes the source of the panic is revealed, at others, well, perhaps for some things, there are no explanations... Read for LibriVox by Alan Davis Drake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website