Synopses & Reviews
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 "Misfortune" by Anton Chekhov, in which a young wife attempts to end an affair; Alexander Pushkin's "The Squires Daughter," a humorous tale of young lovers with feuding parents; "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, "Madame Celestine's Divorce"; and "The Other Woman" by Sherwood Anderson, in which a groom waxes nostalgic on the night before his wedding.
Synopsis
This wide-ranging collection of romantic tales features an international array of authors, including Chekhov's "Misfortune," Lawrence's "The White Stocking," and stories by Pushkin, Trollope, Verga, von Kleist, and many others.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Bob Blaisdell is Professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College and the editor of more than 20 Dover literature and poetry collections. His most recent Dover books include Civil War Letters: From Home, Camp and Battlefield, Great Speeches by Mark Twain, Essays on Teaching, and Humorous American Short Stories.