Forty Stories

  • Forty Stories
    By Anton Chekhov

    Selected stories from each period of Chekhov's career offer a humorous look at ordinary people in trying situations This is a collection of 40 short stories from author Anton Chekhov, and ranging from the abashed happiness of a woman in the ...

  • Forty Stories
    By Anton Chekhov

    background and development it is oddly similar to “The Bride,” the story Chekhov was writing in the last year of his life. Once more we see the bullying matriarch and the beautiful daughter and the young suitors vying for her hand, ...

  • Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial
    By Harper Perennial

    Forty Stories is the first long-form work published under the aegis of Fifty-Two Stories, the short fiction blog of Harper Perennial.

  • Forty Stories
    By Dave Eggers, Donald Barthelme

    This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume.

  • Forty Stories
    By Donald Barthelme

    In Forty Stories, the companion volume to "Sixty Stories," we encounter a dazzling array of subjects: Paul Klee, Goethe, "Captain Blood," modern courtship, marriage and divorce, armadillos, and other unique Barthelmean flights of fancy.

  • Forty Stories
    By John Updike

    Forty Stories