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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100142437816

ISBN-139780142437810

eBay Product ID (ePID)30787961

Product Key Features

Book TitleForty Stories

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Historical

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorDonald Barthelme

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7.9 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-271750

Dewey Edition22

Reviews...a voice that remains uniquely rewarding and often sounds ageless. (The New York Times Book Review), ...a voice that remains uniquely rewarding and often sounds ageless. ( The New York Times Book Review )

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Table Of ContentForty Stories Introduction by Dave Eggers Chablis On the Deck The Genius Opening Sindbad The Explanation Concerning the Bodyguard Rif The Palace at Four A.M. Jaws Conversations with Goethe Affection The New Owner Paul Klee Terminus The Educational Experience Bluebeard Departures Visitors The Wound At the Tolstoy Museum The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace A Few Moments of Sleeping and Waking The Temptation os St. Anthony Sentence Pepperoni Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friends Lightning The Catechist Porcupines at the University Sakrete Captain Blood 110 West Sixty-First Street The Film Overnight to Many Distant Cities Construction Letters to the Editore Great Days The Baby January

SynopsisWilliam H. Gass has written of Donald Barthelme that "he has permanently enlarged our perception of the possibilities open to short fiction." 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. These pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces tangle with the ludicrous, pose questions that remain unresolved, and challenge familiar bits of language heretofore unexamined. Forty Stories demonstrates Barthelme's unrivaled ability to surprise, to stimulate, and to explore. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

LC Classification NumberPS3552.A76F6 2005