YUmoristicheskie rasskazy. Krivoe zerkalo i dr.

Eshche v studencheskie gody A. P. CHekhov nachal pisat' veselye korotkie rasskazy, kotorye pechatalis' v mnogochislennyh yumoristicheskih zhurnalah. YArkie i zapominayushchiesya zabavnye istorii - eto nelepye sluchai i kazusy, proisshedshie s chinovnikami i obyvatelyami, vrachami i prikazchikami, lyud'mi teatra i melkimi pomeshchikami. Smekh CHekhova - to veselyj, to s ottenkom liricheskoj grusti, to legkij i svetlyj, to granichashchij s satiroj, - poistine neischerpaem. I, kazhetsya, chto ego geroev sozdalo ne voobrazhenie pisatelya, a sama zhizn'- V vagone Salon de var'ete I to i syo (Poeziya i proza) I to i syo (Pis'ma i telegrammy) Zabyl!! ZHizn' v voprosah i vosklicaniyah Ispoved', ili Olya, ZHenya, Zoya (Pis'mo) Vstrecha vesny (Rassuzhdenie) Svidanie hotya i sostoyalos', no- Sel'skie eskulapy Propashchee delo (Vodevil'noe proisshestvie) Kotoryj iz tryoh? (Staraya, no vechno novaya istoriya) YArmarka Rech' i remeshok Narvalsya Neudachnyj vizit Idilliya - uvy i ah! Baron Dobryj znakomyj Mest' Perezhitoe (Psihologicheskij etyud) Filosofskie opredeleniya zhizni Moshenniki ponevole (Novogodnyaya pobrekhushka) Gadal'shchiki i gadal'shchicy (Podnovogodnie kartinki) Krivoe zerkalo (Svyatochnyj rasskaz) Dva romana