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Author:
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84095106
Title:
Little apples and other early stories / Anton Chekhov ; translated by Peter Constantine ; introduction by Cathy Popkin.
Edition:
A Seven Stories Press First edition.
Publisher:
Seven Stories Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
187 pages ; 22 cm
Subject:
Russia--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
Russia--19th century--Fiction.
Manners and customs.
Russia.
1800 - 1899
Fiction.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Other Authors:
Constantine, Peter, 1963- translator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92005786
Popkin, Cathy, 1954- writer of introduction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90630307
Other Titles:
Short stories. Selections. English
Contents:
Because of little apples -- À l'américaine -- The temperaments (according to the latest science) -- Salon des variétés -- An idyll -- but alas! -- A doctor's romance -- An editor's romance -- The turnip (a folktale) -- Easter greetings -- Twenty-six (excerpts from a diary) -- The Philadelphia Conference of natural scientists -- My Nana -- Flying islands -- A brief anatomy of man -- A children's primer -- Soothsayer and soothsayeress -- The vaudevillian -- Dirty tragedians and leprous playwrights (a dreadful, terrible, and scandalously foolhardy tragedy) -- Maria Ivanovna -- Troubling thoughts -- Letter to a reporter -- Russian coal (a true story) -- The eclipse -- A problem -- A modern guide to letter writing -- Man and dog converse -- Feast-day gratuities (from the notebook of a provincial scrounger) -- May Day at Sokolniki -- The marriage season (from the notebook of a marriage broker) -- Letters to the Editor -- Visiting cards -- The foolish Frenchman -- Persons entitled to travel free of charge on the Imperial Russian Railways -- The proposal (a tale for young ladies) -- Man (a few philosophical musings) -- From the notebook of a country squire -- Nadia N's vacation homework -- Words, words, words -- The French ball.
ISBN:
1609806646
9781609806644
OCLC:
(OCoLC)908517447
LCCN:
2015025047
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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