Fifty-Two Stories

Larissa Volokhonsky is a translator known for her work on Russian literature. Her translations include major works like Tolstoy's Смерть Ивана Ильича and Dostoevsky's Идіотъ. She also translated Fifty-Two Stories.

Richard Pevear is a translator known for his versions of classic Russian novels, including The Death of Ivan Ilyich and The Idiot. He has also translated or written other works, spanning collections of stories like Fifty-Two Stories and Mister Cat-and-a-half, and poetry.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medic...