Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, jealousy, and the complicated bonds of those who have spent their lives together.
An array of writers evoke a variety of moods, from the raw, erotic passion of Lawrence and Colette to the wickedlycynical comedy of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl; from the agonizing madness of jealousy in Nabokov''s ''That in Aleppo Once ...'' to romantic illusions in Scott Fitzgerald''s ''Winter Dreams''. Objects of passion range from a glamorous silent-movie star in Elizabeth Bowen''s haunting ''Dead Mabelle'' to a faithful ghost in Kawabata''s ''Immortality'' and a successful heart surgeon and serial husband in Margaret Atwood''s ''Bluebeard''s Egg''. Jhumpa Lahiri plumbs the depths of a couple sundered by tragedy while Lorrie Moore movingly portrays a husband and wife brought together by it.
