Forty StoriesIf 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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... Peasant Women After the Theater A Fragment In Exile Big Volodya and Little Volodya The Student Anna Round the Neck The House with the Mezzanine In the Horsecart On Love The Lady with the Pet Dog The Bishop The Bride About the Author ...
... Peasant Women After the Theater A Fragment In Exile Big Volodya and Little Volodya The Student Anna Round the Neck The House with the Mezzanine In the Horsecart On Love The Lady with the Pet Dog The Bishop The Bride About the Author ...
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... peasant, large, dry and hot, and he does not always know what to do with them. Excessively handsome, slender and elegant, he knew his power over people and drew them to him like a magnet. This young and handsome giant was without any ...
... peasant, large, dry and hot, and he does not always know what to do with them. Excessively handsome, slender and elegant, he knew his power over people and drew them to him like a magnet. This young and handsome giant was without any ...
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... peasant lovers stealing apples in an orchard; to punish them the landlord makes the boy flog the girl and the girl flog the boy. The story is not in the least sadistic. Chekhov is amused, and only a little horrified, for the young ...
... peasant lovers stealing apples in an orchard; to punish them the landlord makes the boy flog the girl and the girl flog the boy. The story is not in the least sadistic. Chekhov is amused, and only a little horrified, for the young ...
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... peasant woman of thirty with a sickle in her hand. In a few pages the whole absurd, lamentable history of these ... peasant Denis Grigoryev is put on trial for stealing nuts from railroad ties to use as sinkers for his fishing lines ...
... peasant woman of thirty with a sickle in her hand. In a few pages the whole absurd, lamentable history of these ... peasant Denis Grigoryev is put on trial for stealing nuts from railroad ties to use as sinkers for his fishing lines ...
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Anton Chekhov. confrontation of the baffled peasant and the armed might of justice, uninterested as always in the political implications of his stories. Gorky relates that a lawyer made a special visit to Chekhov to determine whether ...
Anton Chekhov. confrontation of the baffled peasant and the armed might of justice, uninterested as always in the political implications of his stories. Gorky relates that a lawyer made a special visit to Chekhov to determine whether ...
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