Cautionary tale : "Kashtanka"
Chekhov the writer-thinker
Experiment with time : "Lights"
Defining the comic element in Chekhov
Chekhov's "irrelevant" details : "An unpleasant incident"
Excitement and exhaustion : "The nervous breakdown"
play about nonunderstanding : Ivanov
Chekhov's debt to medicine : the Zakharin School
Problem of the "general idea" : "A dreary story"
Judging other people : "The duel"
Making the individual individual
Expressing one's idea : "A woman's kingdom"
"These thoughts are not my own"
"Equal distribution" in conflicts : "Ward no. 6," "the black monk"
Chekhov's general conclusions
Right in one's own way : The seagull
Arguments about arguments : "The house with a mezzanine"
Wasted lives : Uncle Vanya
Chekhov's "Little trilogy" : the fourth story
"This is a great mystery" : "The lady with a little dog"
Last stories of discovery : "A case history," "On official duty"
"If only we could know!" : Three sisters
Man and his faith : "The bishop"
"All of us are to blame" : The cherry orchard.
