Anton Chekhov: Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880-1882Edited by Rosamund Bartlett and Elena MichaljowskaCherry Orchard Books; 536 pp. “Don’t flog me! Don’t flog me!” “Why not?” Maxim thought it over and struck Stepan once again. Several of them, however, as noted in Rosamund Bartlett’s first-rate, expert introduction, were revised by Chekhov for inclusion in various contemporary anthologies. Anton Chekhov: Earliest Stories: Stories, Novellas, Humoresques, 1880-1882 is a scholarly edition, overseen by the Chekhov advocate, biographer and translator Rosamund Bartlett and Elena Michaljowska.