Early Short Stories
Subtitle: 1883-1888
Contributors: Shelby Foote (Editor); Constance Garnett (Translator)
Edition: 1999 Modern Library edition (2)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780679603177
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Short stories; Short Stories (single author); Literary; Russian Novel And Short Story; Translations into English; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Russian; Literature: Classics; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich; Fiction / General; 1860-1904; Classics; Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,
First sentence: It was twelve o'clock at night.
Table of contents: title: Joy; title: The death of a government clerk; title: A daughter of Albion; title: Fat and thin; title: The bird market; title: Choristers; title: Minds in ferment; title: A chameleon; title: In the graveyard; title: Oysters; title: The marshal's widow; title: The fish; title: The huntsman; title: A malefactor; title: the head of the family; title: A dead body; title: The cook's wedding; title: Overdoing it; title: Old age; title: Sorrow; title: Mari d'Elle; title: The looking-glass; title: Art; title: A blunder; title: Children; title: Misery; title: An upheaval; title: The requiem; title: Anyuta; title: The witch; title: A joke; title: Agafya; title: A story without an end; title: Grisha; title: Love; title: A gentleman friend; title: The privy councillor; title: A day in the country; title: The chorus girl; title: A misfortune; title: A trifle from life; title: Difficult people; title: In the court; title: An incident; title: A work of art; title: Vanka; title: On the road; title: Easter eve; title: The beggar; title: An inadvertence; title: Verotchka; title: Shrove Tuesday; title: A bad business; title: Home; title: Typhus; title: The Cossack; title: Volodya; title: Happiness; title: Zinotchka; title: The doctor; title: The runaway; title: The cattle-dealers; title: In trouble; title: The kiss; title: Boys; title: Kashtanka; title: A lady's story; title: A story without a title; title: The steppe; title: Lights