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My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
J (Ed) Eugenides
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Description for My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
Paperback. A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of short stories on the theme of love in its various forms: romantic, erotic, impossible, undying and exhausted. Editor(s): Eugenides, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 426.
A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of short stories on the theme of love in its various forms: romantic, erotic, impossible, undying and exhausted.
No other aspect of the human experience regularly inspires such an outpouring of poetry, prose and philosophy as love. From passionate declarations to clinical analysis, writers of every age have been fascinated, tormented and inspired by love.
This beautifully produced collection of short stories will combine the best of contemporary and classic fiction on the theme of ... Read more
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007291106
SKU
KSG0014916
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About J (Ed) Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, and received an MA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories and Granta's ‘Best of Young American Novelists’. ... Read more
Reviews for My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
‘[A] brilliant collection of love stories…An absolute must-read.’ Harper’s Bazaar, Editor’s picks of the month ‘Better than a bunch of flowers, if not so sweet.’ Metro ‘Eugenides has written a marvellous little essay on the love ... Read more