Introduction: Chekhov's Letters: An Integral Body of Work, Carol Apollonio and Radislav Lapushin
Part I: Publication History, Reception, and Textual Issues
Chapter 1: Reader Reception of Chekhov’s Letters at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Liya Bushkanets
Chapter 2: Some Like It Hot: The Censored Letters, Vladimir Kataev
Chapter 3: On Editing and Translating Chekhov's Letters, Rosamund Bartlett
Chapter 4: Imaginary Chekhov? Yet Another Fabrication by Boris Sadovskoy, Igor Sukhikh
Part II: Approaches to a Body of Work
Chapter 5: Chekhov's “Postal Prose,” Vladimir Lakshin
Chapter 6: Letters Not about Chekhov: On How We Read Chekhov's Letters, Michael Finke
Chapter 7: Chekhov’s Letters: Slow Reading, Alevtina Kuzicheva
Chapter 8: The Writer’s Correspondence as a Narrative Genre: Aspects of Chekhov’s Epistolary Prose, Irina Gitovich
Part III: Genre
Chapter 9: A Unity of Vision: Chekhov’s Letters, Alexander Chudakov
Chapter 10: “I Listen to My Irtysh Beating against Coffins”: The Existential and Dreamlike in Chekhov’s Letters, Radislav Lapushin
Chapter 11: A Playwright’s Letters, Emma Polotskaya
Part IV: From Life to Art: Readings
Chapter 12: Homo Sachaliensis: Chekhov as a Family Man, Galina Rylkova
Chapter 13: Russian Binaries and the Question of Culture: Chekhov’s True Intelligent, Svetlana Evdokimova
Chapter 14: Burned Letters: Reconstructing the Chekhov-Levitan Friendship, Serge Gregory
Chapter 15: Verbal Games and Animal Metaphors in Chekhov’s Correspondence with Olga Knipper, John Douglas Clayton
Chatper 16: The Withered Tree, Zinovy Paperny
Chapter 17: Anton Chekhov and D. H. Lawrence: The Art of Letters and the Discourse of Mortality, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor
Part V: My Favorite Chekhov Letter
Chapter 18: Preface: Chekhov’s Blotter, Dina Rubina
Chapter 19: Chekhov's First Dissertation Proposal (to Alexander Chekhov, from Moscow, 17/18 April 1883), Michael Finke
Chapter 20: Letters, Dreams and Their Environments (to Dmitry Grigorovich, from Moscow, 12 February 1887), Matthew Mangold
Chapter 21: Chekhov's Letter to Lermontov (to Mikhail Chekhov, from the ship “Dir,” 28 July 1888), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor
Chapter 22: A Favorite Chekhov Letter: Mission Impossible (Letters from 1888–89), Robin Feuer Miller
Chapter 23: Chekhov's “Holy of Holies”: The Poetics of Corporeity (to Alexander Pleshcheev, from Moscow, 4 October 1888), Svetlana Evdokimova
Chapter 24: Winged Things (to Alexei Suvorin, from Moscow, 17 October 1889), Elizabeth Geballe
Chapter 25: A Fragment from the Aggregate: Sinai and Sakhalin in Chekhov's Letters to Suvorin
(to Alexei Suvorin, 9 March 1890; 9 December 1890; 17 December 1890), Robert Louis Jackson
Chapter 26: Why Not Stay Here, so Long as It's not Boring? (to family, from Siberia, 23–26 June 1890), Carol Apollonio
Chapter 27: A Prescription to Keep Love at Bay (to Lika Mizinova, from Bogimovo, 20 June 1891), Serge Gregory
Chapter 28: Sympathy for the Devil (to Alexei Suvorin from Melikhovo, 8 April 1892), Cathy Popkin
Chapter 29: Doctor Chekhov Comes to Terms with Tolstoy (to Alexei Suvorin, from Melikhovo, 1 August 1892), Caryl Emerson
Chapter 30: In the Hospital (to Rimma Vashchuk, from Moscow, 27 March 1897), Rosamund Bartlett
Chapter 31: The Power of Memory (to Fyodor Batyushkov, from Nice, 15 December 1897), Elena Gorokhova
Chapter 32: I Have no Faith in Our Intelligentsia (to Ivan Orlov, from Yalta, 22 February 1899), Andrei Stepanov
Chapter 33: Forgive, Forget, and Write (to Ivan Leontyev (Shcheglov), from Yalta, 2 February 1900), Sharon M. Carnicke
Chapter 34: In Place of a Conclusion (to Grigory Rossolimo and to Maria Chekhova, from Badenweiler, 28 June 1904), Radislav Lapushin