First Vintage Classics Edition, March 1991
Copyright © 1963 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published under the title The Image of Chekhov in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1963.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904.
[Short stories. English. Selections]
Forty stories / by Anton Chekhov; translated and with an
introduction by Robert Payne.—1st Vintage classics ed.
p. cm.—(Vintage classics)
Originally published: The image of Chekhov, New York:
Knopf, 1963.
eISBN: 978-0-307-77853-6
1. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. 1860–1904—
Translations, English.
1. Payne, Robert, 1911– . II. Title. III. Series.
PG3456.A13P39 1991
891.73’3—dc20 90-50473
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