Stories & Commentary

Knowing someone does not necessarily mean mastering one’s entire biography.
Sometime it means listening, or reading.
O. Henry and Anton Chekhov did not wish to expose their personal lives to the world, but they wrote their stories so that the world would read them.
Rightly so.
The following pages are dedicated to their works – all of them– so that we can have the honor and privilege to read and know and get excited from the qualities of truly remarkable literary works.
Literature at its finest.     

O. Henry

* Commentary story

• The Four Million
  • Tobin’s Palm
  • A Cosmopolite In A Café
  • The Skylight Room
  • A Cosmopolite In A Café
  • A Service of Love
  • The Coming – out of Maggie
  • Man About Town
  • The Cop and the Anthem
  • An Adjustment of Nature
  • Memoirs of a Yellow Dog
  • The Love Philter of Ikey Schoenstein
  • Mammon and the Archer
  • Springtime A La Carte
  • The Green Door
  • From the Cabby’s Seat
  • An Unfinished Story
  • The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock
  • Sisters of the Golden Circle
  • A Romance of a Busy Broker
  • After Twenty Years
  • Lost on Dress Parade
  • By Courier
  • The Furnished Room
  • The Brief Debut of Tildy
  • Additional links
• Heart Of The West
  • Hearts and Crosses
  • The Ransom Of Mack
  • Telemachus, Friend
  • The Handbook of Hymen
  • The Pimienta Pancakes
  • Seats of the Haughty
  • Hygeia at the Solito
  • An Afternoon Miracle
  • The Higher Abdication
  • Cupid A La Carte
  • The Caballero’s Way
  • The Sphinx Apple
  • The Missing Chord
  • A Call Loan
  • The Princess and the Puma
  • The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson
  • Christmas by Injunction
  • A Chaparral Prince
  • The Reformation of Calliop
  • Additional links
• The Gentle Grafter
  • The Octopus Marooned
  • Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet
  • Modern Rural Sports
  • The Chair of Philanthromathematic
  • The Hand That Riles The World
  • The Exact Science of Matrimony
  • A Midsummer Masquerade
  • Shearing the Wolf
  • Innocents of Broadway
  • Conscience in Art
  • The Man higher Up
  • A Tempered Wind
  • Hostages in Momus
  • The Ethics of a Pig
  • Additional links

• Roads Of Destiny
  • Roads Of Destiny
  • The Guardian of the Accolade
  • The Discounters of Money
  • The Enchanted Profile
  • Next To Reading Matter
  • Art And The Bronco
  • Phoebe
  • A Double Dyed Deceiver
  • The Passing Of Black Eagle
  • A Retrieved Reformation
  • Cherchez La Femme
  • Friends In San Rosario
  • The Fourth In Salvador
  • The Emancipation Of Billy
  • The Enchanted Kiss
  • A Departmental Case
  • On Behalf Of The Management
  • Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking
  • The Halberdier Of The Little Rheinscholss
  • Two Renegades
  • The Lonesome Road
  • Additional links
• Whirligigs
  • The World And The Door
  • The Theory And The Hound
  • The Hypotheses Of Failure
  • Calloway’s Code
  • A Matter Of Mean Elevation
  • Girl
  • Sociology In Serge And Straw
  • The Ransom of Red Chief
  • The Marry Month Of May
  • A Technical Error
  • Suite Homes And Their Romance
  • The Whirligig Of Life
  • A Sacrifice Hit
  • The Roads We Take
  • A Blackjack Bargainer
  • The Song And The Sergeant
  • One Dollar’s Worth
  • A Newspaper Story
  • Tommy’ Burglar
  • A Little Local Color
  • A Chaparral Christmas Gift
  • Georgia’s Ruling
  • Blind Man’s Holiday
  • Madame Bo-Peep Of The Ranches
  • Additional links

• Options
  • The Rose of Dixie
  • The Third Ingredient
  • The Hiding of Black Bill
  • Schools and Schools
  • Thimble, Thimble
  • Supply and Demand
  • Buried Treasure
  • To Him Who Waits
  • He Also Serves
  • The Moment of Victory
  • The Head Hunter
  • No Story
  • The Higher Pragmatism
  • Best Seller
  • Rus in Urbe
  • A Poor Rule
  • Additional links
• Sixes And Sevens
  • The Last Of The Troubadours
  • The Sleuths
  • Witche’s Loaves
  • The Pride Of The Cities
  • Holding Up A Train
  • Ulysses And The Dogman
  • The Champion Of The Weather
  • Makes The Whole World Kin
  • At Arms With Morpheus
  • At Arms With Morpheus
  • A Ghost Of A Chance
  • Jimmy Hayes And Muriel
  • The Door of Unrest
  • The Duplicity Of Hargraves
  • Let Me Feel Your Pulse
  • October and June
  • The Church With An Overshot Wheel
  • New York By Camp Fire Light
  • The Adventures Of Shamrock Jolens
  • The Lady Higher Up
  • The Greater Coney
  • Law And Order
  • Transformation Of Martin Burney
  • The Caliph And The Cad
  • The Diamond Of Kali
  • The Day We Celebrate
  • Additional links
• Rolling Stones
  • The Dream
  • A Ruler Of Men
  • The Atavism Of John Little Bear
  • Helping The Other Fellow
  • The Marionettes
  • The Marquis And Miss Sally
  • A Fog In Santone
  • The Friendly Call
  • A Dinner At
  • Sound And Fury
  • Tictocq
  • Tracked To Doom
  • A Snapshot At The President
  • An Unfinished Christmas Story
  • The Unprofitable Servant
  • Aristocracy Versus Hash
  • The Prisoner Of Zembla
  • A Strange Story
  • Fickle Fortune, Or How Gladys Hustled
  • An Apology
  • Lord Oakhurst’s Curse
  • Bexar Scrip No. 2692
  • Queries And Answers
  • Poems
  • Letters
  • Additional links

• Strictly Business
  • Strictly Business
  • The Gold that Glittered
  • Babes in the Jungle
  • The Day Resurgent
  • The Fifth Wheel
  • The Poet and the Peasant
  • The Robe of Peace
  • The Girl and the Graft
  • The Call of the Tame
  • The Unknown Quantity
  • The Thing’s The Play
  • A Ramble in Aphasia
  • A Municipal Report
  • Psyche and the Skyscraper
  • A Bird of Bagdad
  • Compliments of the Season
  • A Night in New Arabia
  • The Girl and the Habit
  • Proof of the Pudding
  • The Venturers
  • Past one at Rooney’s
  • The Duel
  • What You Want
  • Additional links
• Waifs And Strays
  • The Red Roses of Tonia
  • Round the Circle
  • The Rubber Plant’s Story
  • Out of Nazareth
  • Confessions of A Humorist
  • The Sparrows in Madison Square
  • Hearts and Hands
  • The Cactus
  • The Detective Detector
  • The Dog and the Playlet
  • A Little Talk About Mobs
  • The Snow Man
  • Additional links
• Cabbages and Kings
  • Fox in the Morning
  • The Lotus And The Bottle
  • Smith
  • Caught
  • Cupid’s Exile Number Two
  • The Phonograph and the Graft
  • Money Maze
  • The Admiral
  • The Flag Paramount
  • The Shamrock and the Palm
  • The Remnants of the Code
  • Shoes
  • Ships
  • Masters of Arts
  • Dicky
  • Rouge et Noir
  • Two Recalls
  • The Vitagraphoscope
  • The Vitagraphoscope
  • Additional links

• The Voice Of The City
  • The Voice Of The City
  • The Complete Life of John Hopkins
  • Dougherty’s Eye Opener
  • Little Speck In Garnered Fruit
  • The Harbinger
  • While the Auto Waits
  • A Comedy in Rubber
  • One Thousand Dollars
  • The Defeat of the City
  • The Shocks of Doom
  • The Plutonian Fire
  • Memesis and the Candy Man
  • Squaring the Circle
  • Roses, Ruses and Romance
  • The City Of Dreadful Night
  • The Easter of th Soul
  • The Fool Killer
  • Transients In Arcadia
  • The Rathskeller and the Rose
  • The Clarion Call
  • Extradited From Bohemia
  • A Philistine in Bohemia
  • From Each According to his Ability
  • The Memento
  • The Four Roses
  • Additional links
• The Trimmed Lamp
  • The Trimmed Lamp
  • A Madison Square Arabian Night
  • The Rubaiyat Of A Scotch Highball
  • The Pendulum
  • Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
  • The Assessor of Success
  • The Buyer From Cactus City
  • The Badge of Policeman O’Roon
  • Brickdust Row
  • The Making of A New Yorker
  • Vanity and Some Sables
  • The Social Triangle
  • The Purple Dress
  • The Foreign Policy of Company 99
  • The Lost Blend
  • A Harlem Tragedy
  • The Guilty Party
  • According To Their Lights
  • A Midsummer Knight’s Dream
  • The Last Leaf
  • The Count And The Wedding Guest
  • The Country Of Elusion
  • The Ferry of Unfulfillment
  • The Tale Of A Tainted Tenner
  • Elsie In New York
  • Additional links

Anton Chekhov

* Commentary story / play

Plays

• Plays
  • A Tragedian in spite of himself / An Involuntary Tragian
  • Ivanov
  • On the High Road
  • Tatyana Repina
  • The Bear
  • The Boor
  • The Cherry Orchard
  • The Eve of the Trial
  • The Evils OF Tobacco
  • The Proposal
  • The Seagull
  • The Wedding
  • The Wood Goblin
  • Swan Song – Calchas
  • Three Sisters
  • Uncle Vanya
  • Without Patrimony / Platonov
  • Additional links

Stories

• Stories A
  • A
    • A Bad Business
    • A Blunder
    • A Boring Storing \ A Dull Story \ A Dreary Story
    • A Case of Jurisprudence
    • A Chameleon
    • A Classical Student
    • A Country Cottage
    • A Daughter of Albion
    • A Day in the Country
    • A Dead Body
    • A Defenseless Creature
    • A Doctor’s Visit
    • A Father
    • A Gentleman Friend
    • A Good Friend
    • A Happy Ending
    • A Happy Man
    • A Horsey Name
    • Drama during a Hunt / A Hunting Drama
    • A Joke
    • A Journey By Cart
    • A Lady’s Story
    • A Letter to a Scholarly Neighbor
    • A Living Chattel
    • A Malefactor
    • A Misfortune
    • A Mystery
    • A Nervous Breakdown
    • A Nightmare
    • A Peculiar Man
    • A Pink Stocking
    • A Play
    • A Problem
    • A Romance with a Double Bass
    • A Session on Magnetically
    • A Slander
    • A Story without a Title
    • A Story Without an End
    • A Tragic Actor
    • A Transgression
    • A Trifle From Life
    • A Tripping Tongue
    • A Trivial Incident
    • A Troublesome Visitor
    • A Woman’s Kingdom
    • A Work of Art
    • Aborigines
    • About Drama
    • About Love
    • After the Theatre
    • Agafya
    • All Friends Together
    • An Actor’s End
    • An Adventure
    • An Anonymous Story
    • An Avenger
    • An Enigmatic Nature
    • An Inadvertence
    • An Incident
    • An Inquiry
    • An Official Duty
    • An Unpleasantness
    • An Upheaval
    • Anna on the Neck
    • Anyuta
    • Ariadna
    • Art
    • At a Country House
    • At a Summer Villa
    • At Christmas Time
    • At Home
    • At Sea – A Sailor’s Story
    • At the Barber’s
    • At the Mill
    • At the Post Office
    • Awl in the Bag
    • Additional links

• Stories B – H
  • B
    • Bad Weather
    • Ballroom Pianist
    • Betrothed
    • Birthday Party
    • Book Reading
    • Boots
    • Boredom of Life
    • Boys
    • Additional links
  • C
    • Calchas
    • Captain’s Uniform
    • Champagne
    • Children
    • Choristers
    • Collection
    • Complaints Book
    • Confession
    • Confession or Olya, Zina, Zoa
    • Conuncil
    • Additional links
  • D
    • Darkness
    • Deadly Nightshade
    • Difficult People
    • Diplomat
    • Dr. Startsev
    • Dreams
    • Drowning
    • Drunk
    • Additional links
  • E
    • Easter Eve
    • Enemies
    • Everyday Trifle
    • Evil Boy
    • Excellent People
    • Exclamation Point
    • Exclusive Remedy
    • Expensive Lessons
    • Additional links
  • F
    • Fat and Thin
    • First Debut
    • From Nothing to Do
    • From the Diary of a Violent Tempered Man
    • Frost
    • Additional links
  • G
    • General Education
    • Gone
    • Gone Astray
    • Good friend
    • Gooseberries
    • Grisha
    • Groom
    • Guardian
    • Guest
    • Gusev
    • Additional links
  • H
    • Happiness
    • Holy Simplicity
    • Home
    • !Hush
    • Additional links

• Stories I – M
  • I
    • In a Strange Land
    • In an Hotel
    • In Exile
    • In Passion Week
    • In spring
    • In the Carriage / In the Wagon
    • In the Coach – House
    • In the Court
    • In the Dark
    • In the Graveyard
    • In the Ravine
    • In Trouble
    • Intrigues
    • Invisible World Tears
    • Ionitch
    • Ionych
    • Ivan Matevyitch
    • Additional links
  • J
    • Joy
    • Additional links
  • K
    • Kashtanka – A Story
    • Additional links
  • L
    • Ladies
    • Lady with Lapdog \ A Lady with a Dog
    • Late Blooming Flowers
    • Letter to the Teachings of Neighbors
    • Lights
    • Love
    • Additional links
  • M
    • Malingerers
    • Mari D’Elle
    • Martyrs
    • Mask
    • Meeting
    • Memories of Idealists
    • Minds in Ferment
    • Mire
    • Misery
    • Mother-in-law-Lawyer
    • My Boy
    • My Life
    • My Wife
    • Additional links

• Stories N – S
  • N
    • Neighbors
    • Nerves
    • Not Wanted
    • Additional links
  • O
    • Oh! The Public
    • Old Age
    • On Christmas Eve
    • On Official Duty
    • On the Road
    • Once a Year
    • One of Many
    • Overdoing it
    • Order
    • Oysters
    • Additional links
  • P
    • Panic Fears
    • Peasant Wives
    • Peasants
    • Playwright
    • Polinka
    • Protection
    • Additional links
  • R
    • Rara Avia
    • Required Introduction
    • Revenge
    • Rothschild’s Fiddle
    • Additional links
  • S
    • Siren
    • Shrove Tuesday
    • Sleepy
    • Small Fry
    • Someone Else’s Trouble
    • Sorrow
    • Spineless
    • Stage Manager Under the Sofa
    • Strong Impressions
    • Additional links

• Stories – T1
  • T – 1
    • Talent
    • Tenant
    • Terror
    • The Album
    • The Bar and the Young Lady
    • The Beauties
    • The Beggar
    • The Bet
    • The Bird Market
    • The Bishop
    • The Black Monk
    • The Butterfly / The Grasshopper
    • The Cattle Dealers
    • The Chemist’s Wife
    • The Chorus Girl
    • The Cook’s Wedding
    • The Cossack
    • The Darling
    • The Death of a Government Clerk
    • The Dependents
    • The Doctor
    • The Dual
    • The Enemies
    • The Examining Magistrate
    • The First Class Passenger
    • The Fish
    • The Flying Islands
    • The Head Gardener’s Story
    • The Head of the Family
    • The Helpmate
    • The Horse – Stealers
    • The House with an Attic – The Artist’s Story
    • The Huntsman
    • The Husband
    • The Jeune Premier
    • The Kiss
    • The Lady of the Manor
    • The Letter
    • The Liberal – A New Year’s Day Story
    • The Lion and the Sun
    • The Looking Glass
    • The Lottery Ticket
    • The Man in The Case
    • The Marshal Widow
    • The Murder
    • The Mysteries of the One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes, of the Russian Rocambole
    • The Name Day Party
    • The New Villa
    • The Night Before the Court
    • The Old House
    • The Orator
    • The Party
    • The Petchenyeg
    • The Pipe
    • The Post
    • The Princess
    • The Privy Councilor
    • The Requiem
    • The Runaway
    • The Schoolmaster
    • The Shoemaker and the Devil
    • The Sinner from Toledo – A Translation from the Spanish
    • The Slandere
    • The Snake and the Rabbit
    • The Steppe
    • The Student
    • The Swedish Match – A Murder Story
    • The Teacher of Literature
    • The Thief
    • The Thousand and One Passions, or the Terrible Night
    • The Trousseau
    • The Twenty-ninth of June
    • The Two Volodyas
    • The Victor’s Triumph
    • The Wife
    • The Witch
    • The Woman Who Had No Prejudices
    • !That was it
    • Thinker
    • Three Years

• Stories T2 – Z
  • 2 – T
    • Trifon
    • Tutor
    • Two In One
    • Two Letters
    • Typhus
    • Additional links
  • U
    • Up
    • Uprooted – An Incident of My Travels
    • Additional links
  • V
    • Vanka
    • Verotchka
    • Volodya
    • Additional links
  • W
    • Women’s Happiness
    • Ward Number Six
    • Whitebrow
    • Who Was To Blame?
    • Additional links
  • Z
    • Zinotchka
    • Additional links