The comic stories / Chekhov ; translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Harvey Pitcher.
Forty humorous stories by a 19th century Russian writer. They range from The Exclamation Mark, on a civil servant obsessed with exclamation marks, to He Quarreled with His Wife, on a husband who mistakes his dog for his wife.
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| Other title: | Short stories. Selections. English |
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| Language: | English Russian |
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Chicago :
Ivan R. Dee,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- He quarrelled with his wife
- Notes from the memoirs of a man of ideals
- A dreadful night
- From the diary of an assistant book-keeper
- An incident at law
- The daughter of Albion
- Foiled!
- A woman without prejudices
- The complaints book
- The Swedish match
- Rapture
- Vint
- On the telephone
- Romance with double-bass
- The death of a civil servant
- Overdoing it
- Surgery
- In the dark
- Kashtanka
- Grisha
- Fat and thin
- The objet d'art
- A horsy name
- At the bath-house
- The chameleon
- Revenge
- The orator
- The exclamation mark
- Notes from the journal of a quick-tempered man
- A man of ideas
- The siren
- The burbot
- The civil service exam
- Boys
- A drama
- The malefactor
- No comment
- Sergeant Prishibeyev
- Encased
- The darling
- Notes.