First Vintage Classics Edition, March 1991
Copyright © 1963 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published under the title
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860–1904.
[Short stories. English. Selections]
Forty stories / by Anton Chekhov; translated and with an
introduction by Robert Payne.—1st Vintage classics ed.
p. cm.—(Vintage classics)
Originally published: The image of Chekhov, New York:
Knopf, 1963.
eISBN: 978-0-307-77853-6
1. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. 1860–1904—
Translations, English.
1. Payne, Robert, 1911– . II. Title. III. Series.
PG3456.A13P39 1991
891.73’3—dc20 90-50473
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