Short Fiction Chekhov, Anton: The Darling and Other Stories. v1, 22 Nov 2016

[AlexBell]

Anton Chekhov was born in 1860, the grandson of a serf who had bought his own freedom. He died of tuberculosis in 1904, a renowned doctor, playright, writer of hundreds of short stories, and friend of Leo Tolstoy. He is thought to be one of the greatest writers of short fiction who ever lived.

The short stories included in this ebook are: The Darling, Tolstoy's critique of The Darling, Ariadne, Polinka, Anyuta, The Two Volodyas, The Trousseau, The Helpmate, Talent, An Artist's Story, and Three Years.

The text for this ebook was taken from the University of Adelaide ebook library, and checked against the Chatto & Windus 1912 edition on the Internet Archive. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotes, replaced italics, diacritics, and scene breaks, used British English, and made changes to spelling and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com.

The cover is adapted from the 1898 portrait by Osip Bras in Wikimedia.

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[Jellby]

Constance Garnett (the translator) died in 1946, that means her translations are copyrighted in life+70 countries for three more weeks...

[AlexBell]

Originally Posted by Jellby

Constance Garnett (the translator) died in 1946, that means her translations are copyrighted in life+70 countries for three more weeks...

Oops! Sorry. I should have checked.