Forty Stories
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Vintage Classics
ISBN-10
0679733752
ISBN-13
9780679733751
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Imprint
Vintage Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 6th, 1991
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
362 grams
Dimensions
20.10 x 13.10 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction: literary and generalClassic fiction (pre c 1945)Short stories
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If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence of the husband who abandoned her years before. The obsequious terror of the official who accidentally sneezes on a general. The poignant astonishment of an aging Don Juan overtaken by love. Spanning the entirety of Chekhov''s career and including such masterpieces as "Surgery," "The Huntsman," "Anyuta," "Sleepyhead," "The Lady With the Pet Dog," and "The Bishop," this collection manages to be amusing, dazzling, and supremely moving—often within a single page.
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