Five Great Short Stories

DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

EDITOR: STANLEY APPELBAUM

This Dover edition, first published in 1990, is an unabridged republication of five stories. “The Black Monk” and “The Peasants” are reprinted from The Works of Anton Chekhov: One Volume Edition, Black’s Readers Service Company, N.Y., n.d. (ca. 1929; translators not credited). “The House with the Mezzanine,” “Gooseberries” and “The Lady with the Toy Dog” are reprinted from My Life and Other Stories, C. W. Daniel, Ltd., London, 1920 (translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Gilbert Cannan). A number of typographical errors have been corrected tacitly. Footnotes glossing Russian terms remaining in the translated texts have been prepared specially for this Dover edition.