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Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.: Love Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell (2
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Personalize
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780307270870
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307270874
ISBN-13
9780307270870
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69623216
Product Key Features
Book Title
Love Stories
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Literary, Romance / General, Romance / Collections & Anthologies
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
7.4 in
Item Width
4.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-028460
Reviews
" Love Stories (Everyman's Library) encompasses everything from the unabashedly erotic (Colette) to the sardonically doomed (Dorothy Parker). In literature, as in love, there's something for everyone." Vogue "Love in its vagrant and contradictory forms animate these classic stories from Colette, de Maupassant, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Dorothy Parker, and the strong contemporary tales by Tobias Wolff, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lorrie Moore, and Ali Smith. . . . Tesdell has an especially good eye for a classic writer's most resonant story." Cleveland Plain Dealer "This is a book about love in which none of the stories lapses into sentimentality. . . . Wonderfully amusing . . . fabulously funny . . . I read this book with a mounting sense of marvel. It is a triumph of the anthologist's skill: moving, artful, unceasingly entertaining. . . . This is a book to cherish, to give to your lover, and to escape joyfully into at the first sign of flying saucers." The Spectator "A more cynical celebration than Valentine's Day, which exists chiefly to sell greeting cards and get absent-minded men in trouble, is hard to imagine. Fortunately, Diana Secker Tesdell and Everyman's Pocket Classics offer an antidote to this coarsening of human emotion. Love Stories, a collection of tales by notable authors past and present, show yet again the capacity of literature-in the form of clear-sighted sensibility and the application of mildly elevated language-to renew the weariest heart. . . . The book as a whole … is a matter of deep reading pleasure, refracting the awful beauty and power of love in varied aspects, times, cultures." South Florida Sun-Sentinel "A marvelous Valentine's Day gift for literary lovers." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, " Love Stories (Everyman's Library) encompasses everything from the unabashedly erotic (Colette) to the sardonically doomed (Dorothy Parker). In literature, as in love, there's something for everyone." - Vogue "Love in its vagrant and contradictory forms animate these classic stories from Colette, de Maupassant, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Dorothy Parker, and the strong contemporary tales by Tobias Wolff, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lorrie Moore, and Ali Smith. . . . Tesdell has an especially good eye for a classic writer's most resonant story." - Cleveland Plain Dealer "This is a book about love in which none of the stories lapses into sentimentality. . . . Wonderfully amusing . . . fabulously funny . . . I read this book with a mounting sense of marvel. It is a triumph of the anthologist's skill: moving, artful, unceasingly entertaining. . . . This is a book to cherish, to give to your lover, and to escape joyfully into at the first sign of flying saucers." - The Spectator "A more cynical celebration than Valentine's Day, which exists chiefly to sell greeting cards and get absent-minded men in trouble, is hard to imagine. Fortunately, Diana Secker Tesdell and Everyman's Pocket Classics offer an antidote to this coarsening of human emotion. Love Stories, a collection of tales by notable authors past and present, show yet again the capacity of literature--in the form of clear-sighted sensibility and the application of mildly elevated language--to renew the weariest heart. . . . The book as a whole ... is a matter of deep reading pleasure, refracting the awful beauty and power of love in varied aspects, times, cultures." - South Florida Sun-Sentinel "A marvelous Valentine's Day gift for literary lovers." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
808.83/85
Table Of Content
Guy de Maupassant, Clair de Lune Italo Calvino, Blood, Sea T. Coraghessan Boyle, Swept Away Elizabeth Bowen, Dead Mabelle F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams Colette, Armande D. H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer's Daughter Roald Dahl, Mr Botibol Gabriel García Márquez, The Woman Who Came at Six O'clock Yasunari Kawabata, Immortality Dorothy Parker, Here We Are Katherine Mansfield, The Stranger Tobias Wolff, Lady's Dream Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg Vladimir Nabokov, 'That In Aleppo Once . . .' William Trevor, The Room Jhumpa Lahiri, A Temporary Matter Lorrie Moore, Terrific Mother Ali Smith, May Acknowledgments
Synopsis
An anthology of literary love stories--in a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics edition--perfect for Valentine's Day. Here are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D. H. Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl, from the yearning of unrequited romantic illusions in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" to the agonizing madness of jealousy in Vladimir Nabokov's "That in Aleppo Once . . ." The objects of passion in these stories range from a glamorous silent-movie starlet in Elizabeth Bowen's haunting "Dead Mabelle" and a faithful ghost in Yasunari Kawabata's "Immortality" to a heart surgeon in Margaret Atwood's "Bluebeard's Egg" who spends his days penetrating the mysteries of the human heart but who seems oddly emotionally opaque himself. Jhumpa Lahiri plumbs the despair of a husband and wife sundered by tragedy while Lorrie Moore movingly portrays a couple brought together by it. Katherine Mansfield, Tobias Wolff, and William Trevor explore the intricacies of long-term relationships, while Guy de Maupassant, Italo Calvino, and T. C. Boyle portray the elemental force of love in extremely different ways. As alluring, moving, and intoxicating as its timeless theme, this collection makes an enticing gift for lovers at any stage of life.
LC Classification Number
PN6120.95.L7L75 2009
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- a***g (83)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe book is in excellent condition with perfect packaging!
- o***0 (83)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseDaniel, this book came so well wrapped In mint condition. Don’t you just LOVE the smell of old books! Well worth its price . It may be old, but it’s I excellent shape . Not a mark on it . Thank you Dan, you made my day
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