Forty Stories Chekhov AntonPaperback
Forty Stories Chekhov AntonPaperback If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty…
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Forty Stories Chekhov AntonPaperback
If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing.
The obsequious terror of the official who accidentally sneezes on a general. The abashed happiness of a woman in the presence of the husband who abandoned her years before. 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