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Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
Harper
January 2008
On Sale: January 8, 2008
608 pages
ISBN: 0061240370
EAN: 9780061240379
Hardcover
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"When it comes to love, there are a million theories to
explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are
simpler. A love story can never be about full possession.
Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and
feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one
cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give
love a bad name . . . . It is perhaps only in reading a love story (or in writing
one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and
agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional
price. I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness
and an antidote to adultery. Read these love stories in the
safety of your single bed. Let everybody else
suffer."—Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My
Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead All proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead will go
directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by
826 Chicago. 826 Chicago is part of the network of seven
writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826
National, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting
students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository
writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their
students to write.
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