Foreign Languages Publishing House, brož., pěkný stav

This collection, which includes a number of short stories by the great Russian writer A. P. Chekhov and his "Grasshopper," in intended for English-speaking people having an elementary knowledge of Russian. The stories have been somewhat abridged and adapted to make the texts easier for the student. Further help is provided by the footnotes on each page, which give a translation of the more difficult sentences, phrases and word combinations. An alphabetical Russian-English vocabulary is given at the end of the book.