# Forty Stories

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- Authors: [Anton Chekhov](https://www.bookquiver.com/anton-chekhov), [Robert Payne](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-payne)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 1991-03-06

## Description

If 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...

## Editions

### Forty Stories

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7973-375-1
- Pages: 384
- Published: 1991-03-06
- Language: en_US