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My mistress's sparrow is dead : great love stories from Chekhov to Munro
A collection of love story excerpts from classic literary works, culled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, includes selections by such writers as Alice Munro, William Faulkner, and Milan Kundera, in a volume published to benefit the McSweeney literacy project 826 Chicago.
First love and other sorrows / Harold Brodkey
The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov
Love / Grace Paley
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
The dead / James Joyce
Dirty wedding / Denis Johnson
Natasha / David Bezmozgis
Some other, better Otto / Deborah Eisenberg
The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera
Lovers of their time / William Trevor
Mouche / Guy de Maupassant
The moon in its flight / Gilbert Sorrentino
Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov
How to be an other woman / Lorrie Moore
Yours / Mary Robison
The bad thing / David Gates
First love / Isaac Babel
Tonka / Robert Musil
Jon / George Saunders
Red rose, white rose / Eileen Chang
Fireworks / Richard Ford
We didn't / Stuart Dybek
Something that needs nothing / Miranda July
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud
What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver
Innocence / Harold Brodkey
The bear came over the mountain / Alice Munro.
The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov
Love / Grace Paley
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
The dead / James Joyce
Dirty wedding / Denis Johnson
Natasha / David Bezmozgis
Some other, better Otto / Deborah Eisenberg
The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera
Lovers of their time / William Trevor
Mouche / Guy de Maupassant
The moon in its flight / Gilbert Sorrentino
Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov
How to be an other woman / Lorrie Moore
Yours / Mary Robison
The bad thing / David Gates
First love / Isaac Babel
Tonka / Robert Musil
Jon / George Saunders
Red rose, white rose / Eileen Chang
Fireworks / Richard Ford
We didn't / Stuart Dybek
Something that needs nothing / Miranda July
The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud
What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver
Innocence / Harold Brodkey
The bear came over the mountain / Alice Munro.
Item details
- ISBN: 9780061240379
- ISBN: 0061240370
- ISBN: 9780007257485
- ISBN: 0007257481
- ISBN: 9780061240386
- ISBN: 0061240389
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Physical Description:
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xviii, 587 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, ©2008.
Contents / Notes
| Formatted Contents Note: | First love and other sorrows / Harold Brodkey The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov Love / Grace Paley A rose for Emily / William Faulkner The dead / James Joyce Dirty wedding / Denis Johnson Natasha / David Bezmozgis Some other, better Otto / Deborah Eisenberg The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera Lovers of their time / William Trevor Mouche / Guy de Maupassant The moon in its flight / Gilbert Sorrentino Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov How to be an other woman / Lorrie Moore Yours / Mary Robison The bad thing / David Gates First love / Isaac Babel Tonka / Robert Musil Jon / George Saunders Red rose, white rose / Eileen Chang Fireworks / Richard Ford We didn't / Stuart Dybek Something that needs nothing / Miranda July The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver Innocence / Harold Brodkey The bear came over the mountain / Alice Munro. |
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| Subject: | Romance fiction Romance fiction Liebesgeschichte |
| Genre: | Love stories. short stories. Short stories. Romance fiction. Short stories. Romance fiction. Short stories. Nouvelles. |
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