Great Love Stories

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 "e;A Misfortune"e; by Anton Chekhov, in which a young wife attempts to end an affair; "e;The Earthquake in Chile"e; by Heinrich von Kleist, recounting a seventeenth-century romance; "e;The She-Wolf"e; by Giovanni Verga, a Sicilian tale of a mother and daughter in love with the same man; and Anthony Trollope's "e;Miss Ophelia Gledd,"e; in which a Boston debutante must choose between two suitors. Additional stories include D. H. Lawrence's portrait of sexual jealousy in "e;The White Stocking"e;; a bayou tale by Kate Chopin, "e;Azélie"e;; and "e;The Other Woman"e; by Sherwood Anderson, in which a groom waxes nostalgic on the night before his wedding.