Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Dover Publications, Inc.
Pages
279
Description
"This wide-ranging collection of romantic tales features an international array of authors, including Sherwood Anderson, Alexander Pushkin, Anthony Trollope, and Giovanni Verga. Selections include "Misfortune" by Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence's "The White Stocking," "Madame Celestin's Divorce" by Kate Chopin, "The Earthquake in Chile" by Heinrich von Kleist, and many others"--
Description
Table of Contents:
Note, vii,
Acknowledgments, xiii,
Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952), 1,
Sherwood Anderson [U.S.A.] The Other Woman (1921), 8,
Anonymous [West and South Asia] The Thousand and One Nights ("Story of King Shahryar and His Brother" and "Conclusion") (c. 900), 16,
Giovanni Boccaccio [Italy] Seventh Day: Ninth Story ("Lydia, wife of Nicostratus, loves Pyrrhus") (c. 1353), 35,
Jorge Luis Borges [Argentina] Ulrikke (1975), 45,
Anton Chekhov [Russia] A Misfortune (1886), 50,
Kate Chopin [U.S.A.] Azélie (1894), 63,
Colette [France] White Night (1908), 72,
Géza Csáth [Hungary] Erna (c. 1910), 76,
Junot Díaz [Dominican Republic/U.S.A.] The Sun, the Moon, the Stars (2012), 81,
James Joyce [Ireland] Araby (1914), 95,
Heinrich von Kleist [Germany] The Earthquake in Chile (1807), 101,
D. H. Lawrence [England] The White Stocking (1914), 116,
Gabriel García Márquez [Colombia] The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World (1968), 139,
Guy de Maupassant [France] A Wife's Confession (1882), 145,
Yukio Mishima [Japan] The Priest of the Shiga Temple and His Love (1968), 151,
Alice Munro [Canada] How I Met My Husband (1974), 167,
R. K. Narayan [India] The Shelter (1985), 185,
Dorothy Parker [U.S.A.] A Telephone Call (1928), 189,
Alexander Pushkin [Russia] An Amateur Peasant Girl (1830), 195,
Max Schott [U.S.A.] The Old Flame (1978), 216,
Anthony Trollope [England] Miss Ophelia Gledd (1863), 231,
Lara Vapnyar [Russia/U.S.A.] Love Lessons — Mondays, 9 A.M. (2003), 251,
Giovanni Verga [Sicily] The She-Wolf (1880), 271,
William Carlos Williams [U.S.A.] The Knife of the Times (1932), 276,
Note, vii,
Acknowledgments, xiii,
Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952), 1,
Sherwood Anderson [U.S.A.] The Other Woman (1921), 8,
Anonymous [West and South Asia] The Thousand and One Nights ("Story of King Shahryar and His Brother" and "Conclusion") (c. 900), 16,
Giovanni Boccaccio [Italy] Seventh Day: Ninth Story ("Lydia, wife of Nicostratus, loves Pyrrhus") (c. 1353), 35,
Jorge Luis Borges [Argentina] Ulrikke (1975), 45,
Anton Chekhov [Russia] A Misfortune (1886), 50,
Kate Chopin [U.S.A.] Azélie (1894), 63,
Colette [France] White Night (1908), 72,
Géza Csáth [Hungary] Erna (c. 1910), 76,
Junot Díaz [Dominican Republic/U.S.A.] The Sun, the Moon, the Stars (2012), 81,
James Joyce [Ireland] Araby (1914), 95,
Heinrich von Kleist [Germany] The Earthquake in Chile (1807), 101,
D. H. Lawrence [England] The White Stocking (1914), 116,
Gabriel García Márquez [Colombia] The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World (1968), 139,
Guy de Maupassant [France] A Wife's Confession (1882), 145,
Yukio Mishima [Japan] The Priest of the Shiga Temple and His Love (1968), 151,
Alice Munro [Canada] How I Met My Husband (1974), 167,
R. K. Narayan [India] The Shelter (1985), 185,
Dorothy Parker [U.S.A.] A Telephone Call (1928), 189,
Alexander Pushkin [Russia] An Amateur Peasant Girl (1830), 195,
Max Schott [U.S.A.] The Old Flame (1978), 216,
Anthony Trollope [England] Miss Ophelia Gledd (1863), 231,
Lara Vapnyar [Russia/U.S.A.] Love Lessons — Mondays, 9 A.M. (2003), 251,
Giovanni Verga [Sicily] The She-Wolf (1880), 271,
William Carlos Williams [U.S.A.] The Knife of the Times (1932), 276,
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
279 p.; 8 inches
ISBN
0486793826 / 9780486793825
UPC
800759793822
Call number
FIC K Bla