Forty Stories by Anton Chechov Hachette with an underlying environmental message

with an underlying environmental message that is timely and poignant

a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic

caterpillars into butterflies

As he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home

the Downy birch conquering Scandinavia

Forty Stories by Anton Chechov Hachette with an underlying environmental messageIf 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