Romance
Subtitle: short stories by great writers
By: selected by Rosemary Gray
Series: Worth pocket companions
Publisher: Worth Pocket Companions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781849310703
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Short stories
Description: Sad, funny, chilling, mysterious, romantic and always intriguing, these small masterpieces from teh pens not only of literary legends but also of accomplished lesser-known writers of the past are guaranteed to capture the imagination, engage the emotions, linger in the memory and whet the appetite for more.
Table of contents: title: Love in the night / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: An inverted love story / W.S. Gilbert; title: The long run / Edith Wharton; title: Olalla / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The box-office girl / Arnold Bennett; title: A dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield; title: The Eskimo Maiden's romance / Mark Twain; title: The assignation / Edgar Allan Poe; title: The kiss / Kate Chopin; title: The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro); title: Amy foster / Joseph Conrad; title: The bronckburst divorce case / Rudyard Kipling; title: The lost blend / O. Henry; title: Mr Lismore and the widow / Wilkie Collins; title: The amethyst comb / Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman; title: The boarding house / James Joyce; title: The scrupulous father / George Gissing; title: The lovely lady / D.H. Lawrence.