Translated from the Russian.

Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their superb renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories. These stories, which span the full arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex. Including several never-before-translated stories, this is a collection that promises to delight.