Love Stories

Love Stories, edited by Diana Secker Tesdell, collects the finest short stories ever written about romantic love — from the celebrated to the little-known, spanning centuries and continents, in translations that bring the full range of the form to English-language readers. The selection includes work by Chekhov, Joyce, Mansfield, Munro, and many others, each chosen for its ability to capture something true and lasting about the experience of love — its elation, its anguish, its comedy, and its capacity to transform the people who feel it. Published by Everyman’s Library Pocket Classics, this is a beautiful and portable collection that makes an excellent gift and an endlessly rewarding companion — a reminder that literature’s oldest subject has never been exhausted by all the writers who have approached it.