Chekhov

Антон Павлович Чехов

Original title: The comic stories

Translated by Harvey Pitcher earliest edition we have, 1998 Andre Deutsch, 1998 hardcover 244 pages

"By 1888, when he was just twenty-eight, Chekhov had published a staggering 528 stories, about half of them comic. Unpretentious, lively, and inventive, these comic stories have long been affectionately regarded in Russia, but publishers in the West, overawed by the prevailing image of Chekhov as a melancholy genius, have resisted the down-to-earth humorist. This collection is the first substantial volume in English...

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Harvey Pitcher 1 printing we hold · 1998 · Andre Deutsch

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Chekhov edition · 2013 · ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited · 420 pages · 9781459662186
Chekhov paperback · 2004 · Andre Deutsch · 224 pages · 9780233000381
The comic stories edition · 1999 · Ivan R. Dee · 217 pages
Chekhov hardcover · 1998 · Andre Deutsch · 244 pages · 9780233992013

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