Great Love Stories

by Bob Blaisdell

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Pub Date Apr 20 2016 | Archive Date Aug 09 2016

Dover Publications

General Fiction (Adult) | Literary Fiction

Description

This wide-ranging collection of romantic tales features an international array of authors, including Sherwood Anderson, Alexander Pushkin, Anthony Trollope, and Giovanni Verga. In addition to new translations, the anthology features less-familiar stories not routinely found in similar compilations.
Selections include "A Misfortune" by Anton Chekhov, in which a young wife attempts to end an affair; "The Earthquake in Chile" by Heinrich von Kleist, recounting a seventeenth-century romance; "The She-Wolf" by Giovanni Verga, a Sicilian tale of a mother and daughter in love with the same man; and Anthony Trollope's "Miss Ophelia Gledd," in which a Boston debutante must choose between two suitors. Additional stories include D. H. Lawrence's portrait of sexual jealousy in "The White Stocking"; a bayou tale by Kate Chopin, "Azélie"; and "The Other Woman" by Sherwood Anderson, in which a groom waxes nostalgic on the night before his wedding.

This wide-ranging collection of romantic tales features an international array of authors, including Sherwood Anderson, Alexander Pushkin, Anthony Trollope, and Giovanni Verga. In addition to new...

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Roman C, Reviewer

This is an interesting and wide-ranging anthology of love stories that explore that emotion from many directions: first love, marriage, affairs, desire and despair. The selection of authors and stories is wonderfully eclectic ranging from a tale from Boccaccio's fourteenth-century Decameron through to Junot Diaz' 2012 story.

Along the way, we meet many masters of the short story form (Joyce, Maupassant, Dorothy Parker, Chekhov, Borges) but there are also 'tasters' from authors such as Achebe, Sherwood Anderson, Geza Csath, von Kleist and Mishima.

I read a lot and so was pleased to find that only two of the stories were known to me - love may be the thread that connects these tales but this anthology equally works to showcase the short story form on a global and transhistorical scale.

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Kris K, Reviewer

4 STARS

(I received an ARC from the NETGALLEY in exchange for an honest review.)

This love story anthology is great for any reader. It has stories from the 19th-21st century from all over the world. This is an inexpensive way of trying new authors without a lot of commitment. I am gleeful inside that Alice Munro is included in this book!

k (My Novelesque Life)