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    The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
    The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
    The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
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    The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories

    By Constance Garnett and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1922
    The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
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    Constance Garnett

    Constance Garnett (1861–1946) was one of the first translators to bring English language translations of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov to a wide readership.

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