Anton Chekhov's Short Stories » (1st Edition)

Anton Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860 in Taganrog, Russia. He graduated from the University of Moscow in 1884. Chekhov died of tuberculosis in Germany on July 14, 1904, shortly after his marriage to actress Olga Knipper, and was buried in Moscow.

Ralph E. Matlaw was Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Chicago. He was the author of "The Brothers Karamazov": Novelistic Technique and translated and edited Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and The Grand Inquisitor, Odoevsky’s Russian Nights, and Grigoryev’s Moral and Literary Wanderings. He also edited Tolstoy: A Collection of Critical Essays; Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, and Dobrolyubov: Selected Criticism; and the Norton Critical Editions of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons and Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories.

The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov’s creative career.