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Forty Stories

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.

Contains:

The Little Apples

St. Peter's Day

Green Scythe

Joy

The Ninny

The Highest Heights

Death of a Government Clerk

At the Post Office

Surgery

In the Cemetery

Where There's a Will, There's a Way

A Report

The Threat

The Huntsman

The Malefactor

A Dead Body

Sergeant Prishibeyev

A Blunder

Heartache

Anyuta

The Proposal

Vanka

Who Is to Blame?

Typhus

Sleepyhead

The Princess

Gusev

The Peasant Women

After the Theater

A Fragment

In Exile

Big Volodya and Little Volodya

The Student

Annie Round the Neck

The House with the Mezzanine

In the Horsecart

On Love

The Lady with the Pet Dog

The Bishop

The Bride

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 344
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780679733751
  • Genres
  • fiction, classics, russia, literature, unfinished, novels
  • Release date
  • 1991