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Our Crown Princess HRH Crown Princess Mette Marit is a book lover and an avid reader. I find her book suggestions interesting and sometimes make a list of them, or buy books she has recommended. In this way I ended up buying Chekhov´s Fourty Stories a few years ago, but somehow I never read it. At least not then. But this world travel project has sent me on a search thought the sevel thousand books I have in my shelves, and when I found this one I knew it would be perfect for my project.
And it was!
Russian Anton Chekhov, 1860 - 1904 is said to be the inventor of the modern short stories. He was also a playwright, along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre.
Forty Stories is a collection of short stories written from 1880, when Chekhov was 20 years old, till 1903, not long before his death. Some of them only a couple of pages, others much longer. All of tales of people, told with a hand and a heart who knew humans. Though many of the tales as sad, several times I wanted to cry, they are all told with a humorous pen, told in a way that you feel you understand the people you read about.
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Today´s photo is taken in a private garden in Los Angeles and has nothing to do with the book.
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