The Oxford Book of English Love Stories

By Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Adulterous love, marital love, virginal love, religious devotion, agape, lust, eros: there are an infinite variety of meanings that can be packed into the four letters that spell love, and writers of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192142372
• ISBN13: 9780192142375
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A lovely collection perfect for a romantics!

Filled with 28 love stories, this collection is sure to satisfy romantics as well as "budding" romantics. With such steller writers as Aldous Huxley and Virginia Woolf on hand, the lucky reader is sure to be entertained, enlightened and charmed. Although there are plenty of typical romances here, many of the stories are far from conventional as well, ranging from romantic comedies (H.G. Well's Miss Winchelsea's Heart) to the ironic (Graham Greene's The Blue Film).