Chekhov Short Stories.

Chekhov is the ideal author for Russian learners: quick, plain, humane prose that shows how Russians actually speak and think, in stories short enough to finish at a sitting. This volume gathers twelve of his finest — The Death of a Clerk, A Chameleon, Fat and Thin, The Malefactor and eight more.

The edition is built for reading aloud as much as reading: every multi-syllable word carries its stress mark and the letter ё is fully restored — the pronunciation support most Russian editions omit. A literal English gloss runs beneath each line, and every story closes with a "What it Means" note on the themes and social hierarchy of nineteenth-century Russia.