The Darling and Other Stories

The woman who has no opinions except her husband's, and takes a new one with each husband - together with stories from across his career. Tolstoy read The Darling aloud to visitors and wept, and insisted Chekhov had meant to mock her and had accidentally written something holy. This edition pairs the ten stories with 58 plates of painting bound alongside the text, among them works by Vladimir Makovsky, Maksymilian Gierymski and Karl Friedrich Lessing, in Constance Garnett's translation.