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My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro


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About the Book

A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of short stories on the theme of love in its various forms: romantic, erotic, impossible, undying and exhausted. No other aspect of the human experience regularly inspires such an outpouring of poetry, prose and philosophy as love. From passionate declarations to clinical analysis, writers of every age have been fascinated, tormented and inspired by love. This beautifully produced collection of short stories will combine the best of contemporary and classic fiction on the theme of love, from Catullus to Alice Munro. Edited and introduced by the Pulitzer prize-winning author of 'Middlesex', this wonderfully heterodox look at love will include, amongst others, 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'The Lady with the Lapdog' by Anton Chekhov, and stories by Lorrie Moore, Milan Kundera and Guy de Maupassant. 'The Greatest Love Stories of All Time' will be the perfect gift for Valentine's Day 2008 -- elegant, covetable and timeless.

About the Author :
Jeffrey Eugenides graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, and received an MA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories and Granta's 'Best of Young American Novelists'. His first novel, 'The Virgin Suicides', has been translated into fifteen languages and made into a major motion picture. His second novel, 'Middlesex', won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003.

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Praise for 'My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead': 'Love, they say, makes the world go round. So it makes sense that each of the marvellous love stories in "My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead" succeeds in creating a world of its own -- and then sets it spinning on its axis.! These tales remind us how many forms love can take, how various and strange romance can be, and how every lover secretly believes that no one has ever experienced quite the same intensity of joy and grief. Perhaps even more important, this collection makes us remember how powerful and essential the best short stories are, and how -- very much like love -- they can make us feel as if some mischievous god has shot an arrow that has ever so sweetly and painfully pierced its target: the human heart.' Francine Prose, O Magazine 'Eugenides offers a perfect Valentine's Day gift for lovers of literary fiction. His witty introduction, which channels Roman love poet Catullus and woolgathers engagingly about the "perishable nature of love", is only the first among numerous pleasures that await the reader of this generously proportioned -- only a cad would call it "fat" -- gathering of 26 stories, written within the past 120 years.! One of the best anthologies of recent years, as well as commanding proof that its editor is as expert a reader and critic as he is a novelist.' Kirkus Praise for 'Middlesex': 'Expansive and radiantly generous!a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love.' New York Times 'This year's most sumptuously enjoyable book!superb.' Sunday Times, Books of the Year More praise for 'Middlesex': 'The best American novel since "The Corrections"!exuberant, ambitious, deeply compassionate and wildly funny.' GQ 'This is a truly original and compelling novel, by turns sad, funny and moving.' Daily Mail Praise for 'The Virgin Suicides': 'Beautiful funny and touching!Eugenides is a skilful craftsman and a hypnotic storyteller.' Jay McInerney 'One of the finest novels in many years -- a "Catcher in the Rye" for our time.' Observer '"The Virgin Suicides" is wonderfully original. It could prove to be the start of an important writing career.' Independent


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780007257485
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Sub Title: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
  • Width: 159 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0007257481
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jan 2008
  • Height: 227 mm
  • Weight: 803 gr


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