The first volume of Anton Chekov's Selected Works includes eleven stories written between 1860 and 1904. Death of a clerk. Chameleon. Vanka. The grasshopper. The house with the mansard. The man who lived in a shell. Gooseberries. Yonich. The lady with the dog. In the gully. The bride. The volume opens with Maxim Gorky's reminiscences about his meetings with Chekhov, and in the afterword Sergei Zalygin (b. 1910), a well-known Soviet author, considers Chekhov's work from the vantage point of 1970s.