Anton Chekov s Short Stories（契科夫短篇故事选）

The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov’s creative career. They present a wide spectrum of comic and serious themes and a variety of techniques. (His short novels, available in another Norton volume, Seven Short Novels by Chekhov, have been omitted.) Two of the stories have been translated for this edition by Professor Matlaw; the other translations, by Constance Garnett, Ivy Litvinov, and Marian Fell, have been revised in accordance with contemporary usage. Footnotes have been supplied wherever necessary to explain peculiarities of Russian life and the historical era in which Chekhov lived and wrote.
Backgrounds includes a rich selection of Chekhov’s letters, in new translations by Professor Matlaw, and Gorky’s celebrated essay on Chekhov, translated by Ivy Litvinov. The critical essays offer general views of Chekhov’s art and achievement and detailed analyses of particular stories. The critics are D. S. Mirsky, A. B. Derman (whose essay has been translated from the Russian especially for this edition), Renato Poggioli, Gleb Struve, Donald Rayfield, Karl Kramer, Virginia Llewellyn Smith, and Nils Åke Nilsson.A Se-lected Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study.

Ralph E. Matlaw was Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Chicago. He was the author of "The Brothers Karamazov": Novelistic Technique, and he 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 Edition of The Brothers Karamazov.

The Text of the Stories
Preface
The Texts of the Stories
Chameleon (1884)
Oysters (1884)
A Living Chronology (1885)
The Huntsman (1885)
Misery (1886)
The Requiem (1886)
Anyuta (1886)
Agatha (1886)
Grisha (1886)
A Gentleman Friend (1886)
The Chorus Girl (1886)
Dreams (1886)
Vanka (1886)
At Home (1887)
A Siren’s Song (1887)
Sleepy (1888)
The Grasshopper (1892)
In Exile (1892)
Rothschild’s Fiddle (1894)
The Student (1894)
The Teacher of Literature (1889–94)
Whitebrow (1895)
Anna on the Neck (1895)
The House with the Mansard (1896)
The Pecheneg (1897)
A Journey by Cart (1897)
The Man in a Case (1898)
Gooseberries (1898)
About Love (1898)
A Doctor’s Visit (1898)
The Darling (1899)
The Lady with the Dog (1899)
The Bishop (1902)
The Betrothed (1903)
Backgrounds
SELECTIONS FROM CHEKHOV’S LETTERS
To G.I. Rossolimo (October 11, 1899)
To D.V. Grigorovich (March 28, 1886)
To A.P. Chekhov (May 10, 1886)
To A.S. Suvorin (May 30, 1888)
To A.N. Pleshcheev (October 4, 1888)
To A.N. Pleshcheev (October 9, 1889)
To A.S. Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
To A.S. Suvorin (November 1, 1889)
To L.A. Avilova (March 19, 1892)
To L.A. Avilova (April 29, 1892)
To A.S. Suvorin (March 27, 1894)
To L.A. Avilova (October 6, 1897)
To Maxim Gorky (December 3, 1898)
To Maxim Gorky (September 3, 1899)
To G.I. Rossolimo (January 21, 1900
Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov
Criticism
D.S Mirsky, Chekhov
A.B. Derman, Compositional Elements in Chekhov’s Poetics
Renato Poggioli, Storytelling in a Double Key
Gleb Struve, On Chekhov’s Craftsmanship: The Anatomy of a Story
Donald Rayfield, [The Student]
Karl Kramer, Stories of Ambiguity
Virginia Llewellyn Smith, [The Lady with the Dog]
Nils Åke Nilsson, The Bishop: Its Theme
Selected Bibliography