Translated by R.S. Townsend.

"English translations of short stories by the authors represented in this book": p. x.

"First published in this edition, 1929; reprinted, 1934."

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Everyman's library. Fiction. [no. 758]

The queen of spades, by A.S. Pushkin.

The cloak, by N.V. Gogel.

Korney Vasiliev, by L.N. Tolstoy.

The murmuring forest, by V. Korolenko.

The kiss, by Anton Chehov.

Faust, by E. Chirikov.

A grand slam, by Leonid Andreyev.

The swamp, by A. Kuprin.

In the steppes, by Maxim Gorky.

The white mother, by Theodor Sologub.