TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:

In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores(_italics_), small capitals are represented in upper case as in SMALLCAPS, text in bold is represented as in =text in bold=.

A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenatedvariants. For the words with both variants present the one more usedhas been kept.

During the review process it was brought to the Transcriber's attentionthat the edition used to create this project has some text missing inthe story "The Queen of Spades". A search made has confirmed the issue.According to the version of this story included in "The Prose Talesof Alexander Pushkin", translated by Thomas Keane, and posted also inProject Gutenberg, the following text is missing at the end:

Lizaveta Ivanovna has married a very amiable young man, a sonof the former steward of the old Countess. He is in the service of theState somewhere, and is in receipt of a good income. Lizaveta is alsosupporting a poor relative.

Tomsky has been promoted to the rank of captain,and has become the husband of the Princess Pauline.

Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.