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The Festivities - Wikipedia

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The Festivities (Russian: Юбилей, romanized: Yubilei) is a one-act farce by Anton Chekhov. Written in December 1891, it was first published in May 1892, and is based on his short story "A Defenceless Creature" (Беззащитное существо, 1887).^[1]

Synopsis

A bank manager named Andrey Andreyevitch Shipuchin prepares to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the branch office he manages. He arranges for a series of tributes to his supposed expertise, but chaos ensues when his wife returns from a visit to her mother's and a crazy woman comes looking for a job for her husband.

References

^ James N. Loehlin The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov 2010 1139493523

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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