This collection includes the following stories:
- The Party (1888)
- Lights (1888)
- The Princess (1889)
- After the Theatre (1892)
- Three years (1895)
- The Artist’s Story (1896)
- Home (1897)
- A case history (1898)
- All friends together (1898)
- The bishop (1902)
- A marriageable girl (1903)

Some sad and painful stories about marital disharmony (The Party, Three Years) or people avoiding getting married. I enjoyed most the ones away from the marital theme, specially The Bishop and The Princess (vain selfish Princess sees herself as kind and generous).

Most of these writtings can be found online at 201 Stories by Anton Chekhov or at ReadPrint. Sometimes the stories are presented with different names so A case history is also known as A doctor’s visit.

From “The Artist’s Story”: “Hundreds of miles of desolate, monotonous, burnt steppe are less demoralizing than one man sitting and talking if you have no idea when he is going to leave you in peace”.