Colophon
Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories and novellas published between 1880 and 1903 by
Anton Chekhov.
They were translated from Russian between 1916 and 1922 by
Constance Garnett.
This ebook was produced for
Standard Ebooks
by
Alex Cabal,
and is based on transcriptions produced between 2004 and 2006 by
James Rusk, Chuck Greif, and David Widger
for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans from the
HathiTrust Digital Library.
The cover page is adapted from
Portrait of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov,
a painting completed in 1898 by
Osip Braz.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.
This edition was released on
September 15, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
and is based on
revision 5b999cd.
The first edition of this ebook was released on
May 25, 2014, 12:00 a.m.
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