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The world treasury of love stories

Title: The world treasury of love stories / selected and with an introduction by Lucy Rosenthal ; with a foreword by Clifton Fadiman, general editor.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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xiv, 578 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Exhilarating, poignant, passionate, lyrical, amusing, or inspiring, the selections in The World Treasury of Love Stories are as rich and varied as love itself. While the lion's share of the stories explore romantic love and its many stages and masks, this remarkable anthology is neither conventional nor predictable.
Rather than trying to represent the entire tradition of the love story, editor Lucy Rosenthal has searched the world's literature to select thirty-eight stunningly beautiful and wholly original entries, choosing only those that speak most memorably, and most directly, to our own time.

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Contents

Sintra / Alice Adams -- A Passion in the Desert / Honore De Balzac -- The Book of Ruth / The New English Bible -- The Adventure of a Soldier / Italo Calvino -- Fever / Raymond Carver -- The Country Husband / John Cheever -- The Lady with the Pet Dog / Anton Chekhov -- Eyes of Zapata / Sandra Cisneros -- April / Colette -- Francesca and Paolo (from the Inferno) / Dante Alighieri -- The Immortal Story / Isak Dinesen -- The Walk / Jose Donoso -- A Simple Heart / Gustave Flaubert -- My Lover, His Summer Vacation / Gail Godwin -- Whistling / Myra Goldberg -- Don't Explain / Jewelle L. Gomez -- A Find / Nadine Gordimer -- The Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Adina / Henry James -- The Moon on the Water / Yasunari Kawabata -- The Marquise of O- / Heinrich Von Kleist -- The Hitchhiking Game / Milan Kundera -- The Horse Dealer's Daughter / D. H. Lawrence -- Territory / David Leavitt -- One off the Short List / Doris Lessing -- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima -- First Love / Vladimir Nabokov.
Imagine Kissing Pete / John O'Hara -- Rope / Katherine Anne Porter -- Blind Love / V. S. Pritchett -- Short Friday / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Lovers of Their Time / William Trevor -- Separating / John Updike -- The Wolf / Giovanni Verga -- To Hell with Dying / Alice Walker -- The Wide Net / Eudora Welty -- Roman Fever / Edith Wharton -- From the Molly Bloom Soliloquy, Ulysses / James Joyce.

ISBN

0195093615

LCCN

94034849

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Columbia University Libraries