Stories

by Anton Chekhov

  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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