My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro Summary and Reviews

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

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
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Editor: Jeffrey Eugenides
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-01
ISBN: 0061240370
Number of pages: 608
Publisher: Harper

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Book Review: A gem of a book
Summary: 5 Stars

I was blown away by the stories in this book, not only because the quality of the writing was so high but because of the variety of story offered. There are stories you will probably have come across before like Chekhov's 'The Lady with the Little Dog' but there are also more unusual ones by great writers like Nabokov's 'Spring in Fialta'. There are traditional, modern and post-modern stories, short and long stories, some of them very moving, and they reveal so many different kinds of love. In his introduction Jeffrey Eugenides makes an interesting distinction between love as a subject and the love story. He offers this fat book of stories, he says, as a "cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery." He suggests reading them "in the safety of your single bed" and letting "everybody else suffer". Me, I suffered with the people in the stories. All great stuff!

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