Peasants and Other Stories

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Introduction Copyright © 1956 by Edmund Wilson; copyright renewed © 1984 by Helen Miranda Wilson.

Published by arrangement with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, Inc., on behalf of the Estate of Edmund Wilson All rights reserved.

First published by Doubleday Anchor Books 1956

Cover design: Katy Homans

Cover illustration: Isaac Levitan, Haystacks at Dusk, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Scala/Art Resource, NY.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904.

[Short stories. English. Selections]

Peasants and other stories / Anton Chekhov; selected and with a preface by Edmund Wilson.

p. cm.

Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956.

Contents: A woman’s kingdom — Three years — The murder — My life — Peasants — The new villa — In the ravine — The bishop — Betrothed.

ISBN 0-940322-14-5 (alk. paper)

1. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904 Translations into English. 2. Russia — Social life and customs Fiction. I. Wilson, Edmund, 1895–1972. II. Title.

PG3456.A15W53 1999

891.73'3—dc 21

99-14551

ISBN 978-1-59017-944-4

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