Simmons Ernest J. Chekhov. A Biography

Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1970. — 669 p.Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth 1860-1886.
“Tea, Sugar, Coffee, and Other Groceries”.
“Before Men You Must Be Aware of Your Own Worth”.
“Father Antosha”.
Aesculapius versus Apollo.
Chekhov and the Humorous Magazines.
“All My Hopes Lie Entirely in the Future”.
First Fame as a Writer 1886-1889.
“Schiller Shakespearovich Goethe”.
“My Holy of Holies... Is Absolute Freedom”.
“There Is a Sort of Stagnation in My Soul”.
Frustration, Travel, Literary Maturity 1889-1892.
“Mania sachalinosa”.
“Landowner A. Chekhov”.
The Melikhovo Period 1892-1898.
“Drive the Poets and Fiction Writers into the Country”.
“For the Lonely Man, the Desert Is Everywhere”.
“Twice Rejected”.
“Man Will Become Better Only When You Make Him See What He Is Like”.
“A Work of Art Should Express a Great Idea”.
“I'll Go with the Spring Freshets”.
“To Be Doctored... Is a Form of the Most Repulsive Egoism”.
The Yalta Begins 1898-1900.
“As I Grow Older, the Pulse of Life in Me Beats Faster...”.
“I Have Become a ‘Marxist’”.
“Hello, Last Page of My Life, Great Actress of the Russian Land”.
“My Dear Enchanting Actress”.
Marriage and Death 1901-1904.
“What Do You Know, I’m Going to Get Married”.
“A Wife Who, Like the Moon, Will Not Appear in My Sky Every Day”.
“We Are Both Incomplete People”.
“To Moscow, to Moscow!”.
“Ich Sterbe”.
Bibliographical Survey.