Selected stories from each period of Chekhov's career offer a humorous look at ordinary people in trying situations
Forty Stories
At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now.
Then there are the haunting sociopolitical stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Daniel Alarcón, and Yiyun Li, and the metaphysical fantasies of Chris Adrian, Rivka Galchen, and Karen Russell. Each of these writers reminds us why we read.
Stories from cultures including ancient Babylonia, China, India, Eastern Europe, Morocco.
Nothing goes better with gooey s’mores and a glowing campfire than a good ghost story, and this collection of Doc Forgey’s best scary classics and frightening folktales will send shivers up anyone’s spine.
Many of the stories in The Undiscovered Chekhov reveal Chekhov as a keen modernist.
This collection of bedtime stories is specifically designed for both parents and children, with forty lively tales!
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Forty Stories of Crime and Detection from Original Illustrated Magazines
... 40 hits, 40 stories : behind top songs of the 1960s and 1970s / Rick Simmons. Other titles: Forty hits, forty stories Description: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2022. | Includes bibliographical ...
Like all of Barthelme's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible.