144. Dante Alighieri, Purgatory
145. Mikhail Bulgakov, A Young Doctor’s Notebook
146. Sergei Dovlatov, The Suitcase
147. Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murat
148. Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books
149. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
150. A. Pushkin, The Queen of Spades and Other Short Fiction
151. Raymond Queneau, The Sunday of Life
152. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
153. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Fatal Eggs
154. Antonia Pozzi, Poems
155. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister
156. Anton Chekhov, The Story of a Nobody
157. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor People
158. Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
159. Dante Alighieri, Vita nuova
160. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Tragedy of Korosko
161. Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family and Editors
162. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
163. Erich Fried, Love Poems
164. Antonin Artaud, Selected Works
165. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
166. Sergei Dovlatov, The Zone
167. Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guignol’s Band
168. Mikhail Bulgakov, Dog’s Heart
169. Rayner Heppenstall, Blaze of Noon
170. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Crocodile
171. Anton Chekhov, Death of a Civil Servant
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CHEMODAN (The Suitcase)
Copyright © 1986 by Sergei Dovlatov
Translation © Antonina W. Bouis, 1990, 2011
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This is a work of fiction.
The Suitcase first published in Russian as Чемоdан by Эрмumahc in 1986 This translation first published in the US by Grove Weidenfeld in 1990
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