Oxford University Press, USA, Date: 1996-03-21. Hardcover. Good. 1996. Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 0192142372 9780192142375 [US]

Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, Date: 1996 The dust jacket is somewhat faded. 452 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Size E: 8"-9" Tall (204-227mm). 1996. Oxford University Press ISBN 0192142372 9780192142375 [AU]

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Oxford Book of English Love Stories. ISBN 0192142372 9780192142375 [GB]

ISBN10: 0192142372, ISBN13: 9780192142375, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Love, so the song goes, is a many-splendoured thing, and fiction has been trying for years both to promote and subvert the cliches it encourages. We turn to literature to learn what love is and what it should be, and readers of this collection will find consolation and inspiration in equal measure from some of the sharpest observers of this most essential human emotion. In tracing the lineaments of `English love' through the fiction of200 years we can see something of its infinite variety and of the shifting rules of the game. Sylvia Plath seems closer to Aphra Behn than to Elizabeth Gaskell or even Thomas Hardy in her concept of femininemodesty, while violence, or sheer incomprehension, enter the definition in the worlds of D. H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield. Romantic love is at the heart of the `love story' and these stories, while taking love as their subject, do not always follow the conventional route. Bittersweet endings, ironic angles on traditional platitudes and other surprises make the insights of writers such as Anne Ritchie, Somerset Maugham or V. S. Pritchett always fresh and challenging. Simple orsophisticated, sometimes comic and often very moving, these stories bring a delightful perspective to the mysteries of the English in love. An anthology of 28 love stories, from the 17th century to the present day, presenting a panorama of ...
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