CHEKHOV, Anton
Short Stories
Short Stories
London: The Folio Society, 2001
Illustrated by McFarlane, Debra
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Anton Chekhov, Short Stories. London: The Folio Society, 2001. Third printing thus, 2003. Edited and introduced by Gordon McVay, foreword by Zinovy Zinik, illustrated by Debra McFarlane. Translated by Constance Garnett, Gordon McVay, Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher. 229 × 162 × 37 mm. Pp. [i–iv] v–xxiv, 1–480: [9] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [iii], 41, 56, 137, 152, 328, 345, 441 and 456). Type: Ehrhardt with Walbaum and Gill Sans for display. Printed by the Saint Edmundsbury Press. Bound by Cambridge University Press in quarter red cloth, red paper boards with a repeat pattern in dark red, cream and gold; pale brown endleaves. Red slip case. A different selection of Chekhov’s stories was published previously by the Society in 1974.
A near-fine copy, binding square and tight, pages clean and uninscribed, with lightest crease to foot of spine. In a very good slipcase with a little shelf-wear and a shallow ding to one panel.
Includes the following stories, with the translator of each in brackets: "The Death of a Civil Servant" (Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher), "Fat and Thin" (Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher), "The Huntsman" (Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher), "Sergeant Prishibeyev" (Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher), "Misery" (Constance Garnett), "Easter Night" (Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher), "Romance with Double-Bass" (Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher), "Vanka" (Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher), "The Reed-Pipe" (Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher), "Boys" (Harvey Pitcher), "Kashtanka" (Harvey Pitcher), "A Lady’s Story" (Constance Garnett), "No Comment" (Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher), "The Beauties" (Constance Garnett), "A Dreary Story" (Constance Garnett), "Gusev" (Constance Garnett), "The Grasshopper" (Constance Garnett), "In Exile" (Constance Garnett), "Ward No. 6" (Constance Garnett), "The Black Monk" (Constance Garnett), "Rothschild’s Fiddle" (Constance Garnett), "The Student" (Gordon McVay), "The House with the Mezzanine" (Constance Garnett), "Peasants" (Constance Garnett), "Ionich" (Constance Garnett), "Encased" (Harvey Pitcher), "Gooseberries" (Constance Garnett), "About Love" (Constance Garnett), "A Doctor’s Visit" (Constance Garnett), "On Official Duty" (Constance Garnett), "The Darling" (Harvey Pitcher), "The Lady with the Dog" (Constance Garnett), "In the Ravine" (Constance Garnett), "The Bishop" (Constance Garnett).
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