Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Introduction XIII
4. About the Translations XXXII
5. About the Translators XXXVI
6. Letter to a Learned Neighbour 1
7. What Does One Usually Encounter in Novels, Tales, etc? 7
8. Chase Two Hares and You Will Lose Them Both 9
9. Holiday Assignments 14
10. Papasha 17
11. My Jubilee 23
12. One Thousand and One Passions, or a Terrible Night 24
13. On Account of the Apples 27
14. Before the Wedding 33
15. The American Way 38
16. Artists’ Wives 40
17. St. Peter’s Day 53
18. Personality Types 66
19. On the Train 70
20. Salon des Variétés 76
21. The Trial 80
22. Antosha Chekhonte’s Classified Ads Bureau 84
23. This and That 89
24. This and That 91
25. The Sinner from Toledo 95
26. Supplementary Questions 100
27. At The Wolf-Baiting 101
28. Comic Advertisements and Notices 106
29. The Mad Mathematician’s Maths Test 110
30. Forgotten!! 111
31. Life in Questions and Exclamations 115
32. Confession, or Olya, Zhenya, Zoya 118
33. The Greeting Of Spring 125
34. Alarm Clock Almanac 128
35. Green Point 145
36. “The Rendezvous did Take Place, But...” 159
37. The Correspondent 164
38. Rural Aesculapiuses 180
39. A Lost Opportunity 186
40. Flying Islands 191
41. A Rotten Story 198
42. The Twenty-Ninth of June 207
43. Which of the Three? 215
44. He and She 221
45. The Fair 228
46. The Mistress 234
47. A Hollow Victory 255
48. Live Goods 332
49. Late-Blooming Flowers 364
50. A Speech and a Strap 402
51. An Unfortunate Run-In 404
52. An Unsuccessful Visit 407
53. Two Scandals 408
54. Idyll—Alack and Alas! 418
55. The Baron 421
56. A Kind Acquaintance 428
57. Revenge 430
58. An Experience 436
59. Philosophical Definitions of Life 438
60. Reluctant Cheats 440
61. Fortune Tellers 444
62. The Distorting Mirror 446
63. Two Romances 449
64. Explanatory Notes 452
65. Original Publication Dates 485