Forty Stories
By Anton Chekhov
Introduction by Robert Payne
Translated by Robert Payne
By Anton Chekhov
Introduction by Robert Payne
Translated by Robert Payne
By Anton Chekhov
Introduction by Robert Payne
Translated by Robert Payne
By Anton Chekhov
Introduction by Robert Payne
Translated by Robert Payne
Part of Vintage Classics
Part of Vintage Classics
Category: Short Stories | Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Essays & Literary Collections
Category: Short Stories | Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Essays & Literary Collections
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$15.95
Mar 06, 1991 | ISBN 9780679733751
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Mar 09, 2011 | ISBN 9780307778536
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Praise
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean — wherever my imagination ranges."
— Anton Chekhov
If any one writer can be said to have invented the modem 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," "Sleepy-head," "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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