TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: 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. * * * * * [Illustration: =Turgenev=] [Illustration] 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 The use of the copyrighted translations in collection has been authorized by the authors or their representatives. The translations made especially for this collection are covered by the general copyright CONTENTS--VOLUME I RUSSIAN PAGE THE QUEEN OF SPADES ALEXANDER SERGEIEVITCH POUSHKIN 3 THE CLOAK NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH GOGOL 21 THE RENDEZVOUS IVÁN TURGENEV 67 THE COUNTING-HOUSE IVÁN TURGENEV 81 THE THIEF FEODOR MIKAILOVITCH DOSTOIEVSKI 109