# Forty Stories

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- Book: [Forty Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-barthelme/forty-stories) ([Forty Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-barthelme/forty-stories.md))
- Authors: [Donald Barthelme](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-barthelme)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-094-6
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2005-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.