The Island of Sakhalin (The Folio Society)

xvii, 287 pp. Translated into English from the original Russian by Luba and Michael Terpak, with an introduction by Irina Ratushinskaya, and black-and-white photographs by I.I. Pavlovsky. Chekhov's account of his visit to the penal colony of Sakhalin in 1890 is illustrated with contemporary photographs.