Customer Reviews

Love Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)

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A book to savor before bedtime every night. You'll find yourself reading several stories at a time, because they're that good. Unexpected juxtapositions. Thanks for making these marvelous little Everyman stories collections. I also have Christmas Stories. I think I'll try Detective Stories and Sea Stories next.

First I must admit that I am a great fan of the Everyman's Library books. They are wonderful editions to own.

This particular book, one of Everyman's "Pocket Classics" issues, is slightly smaller in size than most hardcover books; it fits very nicely in your hand, and it is beautifully produced and handsome to hold, either with or without the dust jacket (the book itself is bound in cloth and looks great without the jacket).

This edition contains 19 stories, varying in length from 4 pages ("Immortality", by Yasunari Kawabata), to (44 pages ("Terrific Mother", by Lorrie Moore). Authors included are Guy De Maupassant, Italo Calvino, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Elizabeth Bowen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Colette, D. H. Lawrence, Roald Dahl, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Yasunari Kawabata, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, Tobias Wolff, Margaret Atwood, Vladimir Nabokov, William Trevor, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lorrie Moore, and Ali Smith. There are no special introductions to the book or to the stories, simply the stories themselves, presented one after the other, with acknowledgements at the end stating where they first appeared.

I think that this is a very nice book to present to a loved one, or for yourself.

This book was reviewed by our book club. We found it to be worth discussion. The authors are international and the short stories very different than expected. A whole different outlook on love stories.