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Franklin Library leather edition of Anton Chekhov's "Peasants and Other Stories," Selected and Introduced by Edmund Wilson, Illustrated by Frederick Scheider, Frontispiece portrait by Herbert Tauss, a Limited edition, one of the COLLECTED STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS series, published in 1977. Bound in black leather with extra gold gilt on the cover, the book has scarlet red silk end leaves, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, who lived from 1860- 1904, was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. Chekhov made his living as a medical doctor, but he once quipped that: "Medicine is my lawful wife,"and literature is my mistress," When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other." This volume includes: A WOMAN'S KINGDOM, THREE YEARS, THE MURDER, MY LIFE, PEASANTS, THE NEW VILLA, IN THE RAVINE, THE BISHOP, and BETROTHED. 481 pages. I offer Combined shipping.