Here, Blackstone has compiled forty-one of Chekhov's delightful short stories: A Living Chattel, Joy, At the Barber's, An Enigmatic Nature, A Classical Student, The Death of a Government Clerk, The Trousseau, A Daughter of Albion, An Inquiry, Fat and Thin, A Tragic Actor, The Bird Market, A Slander, The Swedish Match, Choristers, The Album, Minds in Ferment, A Chameleon, In the Graveyard, Oysters, The Marshal's Widow, Small Fry, In an Hotel, Boots, Nerves, A Country Cottage, Malingerers, The Fish, Gone Astray, The Huntsman, A Malefactor, The Head of the Family, A Dead Body, The Cook's Wedding, In a Strange Land, Overdoing It, Old Age, Sorrow, Oh! The Public!, Mari d'Elle, and The Looking-Glass.