Oysters (short story)

"Oysters"
Short story by Anton Chekhov
1903 illustration by Alexander Apsith
Original title	Устрицы
Translator	Robert Long (1908) Constance Garnett (1922)
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Publication
Published in	Budilnik
Publication date	16 December 1884

"Oysters" (Russian: Устрицы, romanized: Ústritsy) is a short story by Anton Chekhov published originally in the No. 486 (16 December), 1884 issue of Budilnik magazine, subtitled "A Sketch" (Набросок) and signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте). It was included (without the subtitle) into Chekhov's 1886 collection Motley Stories (Пёстрые рассказы) published in Saint Petersburg, and in a slightly revised version appeared in this book's next 13 editions, in 1892–1899. It was also included into the Russian Writers' Short Stories 1895 collection and later into the Volume 3 of The Collected Works by A.P. Chekhov's first edition.^[1]

In an 18 January 1886 letter to Viktor Bilibin, discussing the stories he'd chosen for the Motley Stories collection, Chekhov wrote: "Hereby I attach one story that had missed the main bulk, you may add it to the others... In it for the first time I've taken upon myself the role of a 'medicus'."^[1]

Synopsis

A beggar's child, delirious from hunger, falls victim to a cruel practical joke by the people from the tavern which his father stops nearby to beg for money.

References

^ ^a ^b Yezhova, I., Shub, E. Commentaries to Устрицы. The Works by A.P. Chekhov in 12 volumes. Khudozhestvennaya Literatura. Moscow, 1960. Vol. 2, p. 580

External links

Устрицы. The Original Russian text
Oysters. 1908 and 1922 English translations

Anton Chekhov

Bibliography

Plays

Platonov (1881)
On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (1886, 1902)
Swansong (1887)
Ivanov (1887)
The Bear (1888)
A Tragedian in Spite of Himself (1889)
The Wedding (1889)
Tatiana Repina (1889)
The Wood Demon (1889)
A Marriage Proposal (1890)
The Festivities (1891)
The Seagull (1896)
Uncle Vanya (1897)
Three Sisters (1901)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)

Novel

The Shooting Party (1884)

Novellas

The Steppe (1888)
The Duel (1891)
The Story of an Unknown Man (1893)
Three Years (1895)
My Life (1896)

Short stories

Motley Stories (1886)	"An Enigmatic Nature" (1883) "The Death of a Government Clerk" (1883) "Fat and Thin" (1883) "Surgery" (1884) "The Chameleon" (1884) "Oysters" (1884) "A Living Chronology" (1885) "Small Fry" (1885) "The Fish" (1885) "The Huntsman" (1885) "A Malefactor" (1885) "Children" (1886) "Misery" (1886) "Anyuta" (1886) "Ivan Matveyich" (1886)
In the Twilight (1887)	"The Requiem" (1886) "The Witch" (1886) "Agafya" (1886) "Easter Eve" (1886) "A Misfortune" (1886) "Home" (1887)
Stories (1888)	"The Privy Councillor" (1886) "Mire" (1886) "Vanka" (1886) "Happiness" (1887)
Gloomy People (1890)	"The Cattle-Dealers" (1887) "Sleepy" (1888) "A Dreary Story" (1889) "A Nervous Breakdown" (1889)
Ward No. 6 (1893)	"Gusev" (1890) "Peasant Wives" (1891) "Ward No. 6" (1892)
Novellas and Stories (1894)	"The Grasshopper" (1892) "In Exile" (1892) "The Black Monk" (1894) "Rothschild's Violin" (1894) "The Student" (1894) "The Teacher of Literature" (1894)
Little Trilogy (1898)	"The Man in the Case" (1898) "Gooseberries" (1898) "About Love" (1898)
Stories (1901)	"Anna on the Neck" (1895) "Ariadne" (1895) "The House with the Mezzanine" (1895) "Peasants" (1897) "The Petcheneg" (1897) "At Home" (1897) "In the Cart" (1897) "Ionych" (1898) "A Doctor's Visit" (1898) "On Official Duty" (1899) "The Darling" (1899)
Other stories	"The Complaints Book" (1884) "A Horsey Name" (1885) "Sergeant Prishibeyev" (1885) "Grisha" (1886) "A Gentleman Friend" (1886) "The Chorus Girl" (1886) "Shrove Tuesday" (1886) "First Aid" (1887) "The Runaway" (1887) "The Siren" (1887) "Boys" (1887) "Kashtanka" (1887) "A Story Without a Title" (1888) "The Bet" (1889) "Whitebrow" (1895) "The Lady with the Dog" (1899) "In the Ravine" (1900) "The Bishop" (1902) "Betrothed" (1903)

Non-fiction

Sakhalin Island (1893–1895)

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