Forty Stories -- Anton Chekhov, Paperback

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Forty Stories -- Anton Chekhov, PaperbackIf 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

Do you ever feel strange

brings into focus our most urgent set of national issues

All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a Jewish man

an orphan who found his calling as a paramedic

Now she yearns for privacy--but knows her parents won't oblige

But all those cries can wear a man down

The fate of the entire rebellion now rests on Nox and Siobhan's ability to rescue Bastian from a Cŵn Annwn ship

we can better identify the sources of distress and eventually avoid that pain in our life

In riveting style

starts calling her "shrimp

Now the worlds are going to collide anew--brought to a dangerous precipice by the discoveries of three remarkable magicians

Carney's endearingly violent partner in crime