Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

STORIES

A Bantam Book / November 2000

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Translation copyright © 2000 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Excerpts, as submitted, from Letters of Anton Chekhov by Michael Henry Heim and Simon Karlinsky copyright © 1973 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904.

[Short stories. English. Selections]

Stories / by Anton Chekhov; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-56828-1

1. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904—Translations into English. I. Pevear,

Richard, 1943– II. Volokhonsky, Larissa. III. Title.

PG3456.A13 P48 2000

891.73′3—dc21

00-037894

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