Love Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312957564 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The world has as many love stories as it has beating hearts.Now you can experience the power of ageless love in this engaging collection of beautifully crafted and atmospheric storiesA lazy summer on the Cornish coast changeds Rosamunde Philcher's "Lalla" from girl to woman.Catherine Cookson's "Miss Geraldine Parkington" bids a bold farewell to a long life of loneliess and lovelessness.John Updike's "A Constellation of Events" watches the first glimmer of adultry become a never-to-be-forgotten starburst.A runaway rabbit plays Cupid for a leggy redheaded secretary in Jully Cooper's delightfully quirky "The Square Peg.""Kiss Me Again, Strager," says Daphne du Maurier's sleepy-eyed sired when a young man follows her home on a dark London evening.For romantics everywhere, a bouquet of fiery passions and lingering sweetness.
Just okay for me. K. Haines Some of the short stories were good. As always Rosamunde Pilcher's renditions (only 2) were very good. The rest of itokay.
From Publishers Weekly Previously published in Great Britain in 1990, this collection of 18 stories about love and its many guises represents an uneven gathering of authors, from Stella Whitelaw to Ivan Turgenev, Jilly Cooper to John Updike. Unfortunately, despite the presence of other major writers (Daphne du Maurier, Guy de Maupassant, H.E. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Bates, Colette), such subtlety and craftsmanship are rare in this volume, which proves satisfying without being challenging, interesting without being memorable. Typical of the more romantic tales are Catherine Cookson's "Miss Geraldine Parkington," about a spinster from a well-to-do English family who proposes marriage to her longtime gardener, and Pilcher's "Lalla,"