The world treasury of love stories /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Sintra / Alice Adams
- A passion in the desert / Honore De Balzac
- The book of Ruth / The New English Bible
- The adventure of a soldier / Italo Calvino
- Fever / Raymond Carver
- The country husband / John Cheever
- The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov
- Eyes of zapata / Sandra Cisneros
- April / Colette
- Francesca and Paolo (from the inferno) / Dante Alighieri
- The immortal story / Isak Dinesen
- The walk / Jose Donoso
- A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert
- My lover, his summer vacation / Gail Godwin
- Whistling / Myra Goldberg
- Don't explain / Jewell L. Gomez
- A find / Nadine Gordimer
- The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Adina / Henry James
- The moon on the water / Yasunari Kawabata
- The marquise of O ̲̲̲/ Heinrich Von Kleist
- The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera
- The horse dealer's daughter / D. H. Lawrence
- Territory / David Leavitt
- One off the short list / Doris Lessing
- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima
- First love / Vladimir Nabokov
- Imagine kissing Pete / John O'Hara
- Rope / Katherine Anne Porter
- Blind love / V. S. Pritchett
- Short Friday / Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Lovers of their time / William Trevor
- Separating / John Updike
- The wolf / Giovanni Verga
- To hell with dying / Alice Walker
- The wide net / Eudora Welty
- Roman fever / Edith Wharton