Notes on Best Russian Short Stories

The first edition was replaced in 1934 with an edition combining the original stories plus those in Andreyev's Seven That Were Hanged plus one additional story (Bunin's The Gentleman From San Francisco). The pagination in this later edition was broken, reflecting the combining of the original two sources. In 1945 a new edition was published with the same stories as the 1934 edition but with continuous pagination.

There is some evidence [unconfirmed] that there's a version of the 1934 edition without the Seltzer introduction.

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First copyright page text:       [ none ]

Dates in print:     1917 - 1934
                              1934 - 1945 (Andreyev added, broken pagination)
                              1945 - 1971 (Same stories but continuous pagination)

Toledano number:   018.1 (missing Andreyev short story)
                                   018.2 (not in Toledano: Andreyev added; broken pagination)
                                   018.3 (not in Toledano: Continuous pagination)

Intro author:     Thomas Seltzer

Genre:     Short Stories

Original language:     Russian

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Thanks to the contributors:

Henry Toledano

Barry Neavill

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