The Undiscovered Chekhov

Copyright © 1998 by Peter Constantine

Foreword © 1999 by Spalding Gray

A Seven Stories Press First Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.

[Short stories. English. Selections]

The undiscovered Chekhov: forty-three new stories / by Anton Chekhov;

translated by Peter Constantine. —Seven Stories Press 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 1-888363-76-2 (cloth)

ISBN 1-58322-013-5 1. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904—Translations into English.

I. Constantine, Peter, 1963- . II. Title.

PG3456A15C66 1998

9876543

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