Fifty-Two Stories

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2020 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Preface copyright © 2020 by Richard Pevear

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904, author. | Pevear, Richard, [date] translator. | Volokhonsky, Larissa, translator.

Title: Fifty-two stories (1883–1898) / Anton Chekhov ; a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Description: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020] | Translated from the Russian.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019022613 (print) | LCCN 2019022614 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525520818 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525520825 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904—Translations into English.

Classification: LCC PG3456.A13 P484 2020 (print) | LCC PG3456.A13 (ebook) | DDC 891.73/3—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022613

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022614

Ebook ISBN 9780525520825

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover design by John Gall

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