The world treasury of love stories
By: selected and with an introduction by Lucy Rosenthal ; with a foreword by Clifton Fadiman, general editor.
Contributors: Rosenthal, Lucy.; Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 578
Subjects: Love -- Literary collections
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: xi; title: Sintra
pagenum: 3; title: A Passion in the Desert
pagenum: 12; title: The Book of Ruth
pagenum: 23; title: The Adventure of a Soldier
pagenum: 28; title: Fever
pagenum: 36; title: The Country Husband
pagenum: 54; title: The Lady with the Pet Dog
pagenum: 74; title: Eyes of Zapata
pagenum: 88; title: April
pagenum: 107; title: Francesca and Paolo (from the Inferno)
pagenum: 112; title: The Immortal Story
pagenum: 116; title: The Walk
pagenum: 156; title: A Simple Heart
pagenum: 171; title: My Lover, His Summer Vacation
pagenum: 195; title: Whistling
pagenum: 211; title: Don't Explain
pagenum: 223; title: A Find
pagenum: 231; title: The Birthmark
pagenum: 236; title: Adina
pagenum: 250; title: The Moon on the Water
pagenum: 281; title: The Marquise of O-
pagenum: 289; title: The Hitchhiking Game
pagenum: 318; title: The Horse Dealer's Daughter
pagenum: 332; title: Territory
pagenum: 346; title: One off the Short List
pagenum: 362; title: Patriotism
pagenum: 382; title: First Love
pagenum: 401; title: Imagine Kissing Pete
pagenum: 409; title: Rope
pagenum: 455; title: Blind Love
pagenum: 461; title: Short Friday
pagenum: 494; title: Lovers of Their Time
pagenum: 504; title: Separating
pagenum: 521; title: The Wolf
pagenum: 531; title: To Hell with Dying
pagenum: 535; title: The Wide Net
pagenum: 541; title: Roman Fever
pagenum: 559; title: Epilogue; title: From the Molly Bloom Soliloquy, Ulysses
pagenum: 570; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 573; title: Index
pagenum: 577