Colophon

Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories and novellas published between 1894 and 1919 by
Aleksandr Kuprin.
They were translated from Russian between 1916 and 1925 by
S. Koteliansky, J. M. Murry, Stephen Graham, Rosa Savory, Leo Pasvolsky, Douglas Ashby, B. Guilbert Guerney, Alexander Gagarine and Malcolm W. Davis,
and from French in 1922 by
The Living Age.

This ebook was produced for
Standard Ebooks
by
Robin Whittleton,
and is based on transcriptions produced for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans from
various sources.

The cover page is adapted from
The Harlot of Marseilles,
a painting completed in 1923 by
Boris Grigoriev.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by
The League of Moveable Type.

The first edition of this ebook was released on
October 11, 2021, 6:14 p.m.
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