In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores
(_italics_), small capitals are represented in upper case as in SMALL
CAPS, text in bold is represented as in =text in bold=.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated
variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used
has been kept.
During the review process it was brought to the Transcriber's attention
that the edition used to create this project has some text missing in
the story "The Queen of Spades". A search made has confirmed the issue.
According to the version of this story included in "The Prose Tales
of Alexander Pushkin", translated by Thomas Keane, and posted also in
Project Gutenberg, the following text is missing at the end:
Lizaveta Ivanovna has married a very amiable young man, a son
of the former steward of the old Countess. He is in the service
of the State somewhere, and is in receipt of a good income.
Lizaveta is also supporting a poor relative.
Tomsky has been promoted to the rank of captain, and has become
the husband of the Princess Pauline.
Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.
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SHORT STORY
CLASSICS
(FOREIGN)
VOLUME ONE
RUSSIAN
EDITED BY
William Patten
WITH
AN INTRODUCTION
AND NOTES
P. F. COLLIER & SON
NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT 1907
BY P. F. COLLIER & SON
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CONTENTS--VOLUME I
RUSSIAN