Collected Shorter Fiction, Volume 2

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

First included in Everyman’s Library, 2001

Introduction, Bibliography and Chronology Copyright © 2001

by Everyman’s Library

Translations in the Appendix Copyright © 2001 by Nigel J. Cooper

Sixth printing (US)

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A CIP catalogue reference for this book is available from the

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828–1910.

[Short stories. English. Selections]

The collected shorter fiction/Leo Tolstoy; translated by Aylmer Maude

and Nigel J. Cooper; with an introduction by John Bayley.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-81991-8

1. Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910—Translations into English.

I. Maude, Aylmer, 1858–1938. II. Cooper, Nigel J. III. Title.

PG3366.A13 M3 2001 00-053487

891.73’3—dc21

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