GREAT AMERICAN
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LOVE STORIES Hardback book with Dust Jacket selected by Lucy Rosenthal With an introduction by Lucy Rosenthal Over 667 pages First Galahad Books editions published in 1995 Copyright © 1988 by Lucy Rosenthal " From the early masters, Hawthorne and Melville, through Hemingway and Fitzgerald,
to the postmodern minimalists of today, love stories have been an enduring part of the American literary tradition.
Now Lucy Rosenthal has gathered the great American love stories in a wonderfully enjoyable collection.
These stories reflect America's diversity - economic, regional, racial, ethnic - as well as the common themes that love inspires: the longing of first love; married love; clandestine love; breakups and partings. " " Passionate, romantic, wistful, often sad - and even funny - these are stories to read and reread in a volume to treasure. " Contents include: " Introduction
by Lucy Rosenthal Rappaccini's Daughter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Piazza
by Herman Melville Daisy Miller
by Henry James Souls Belated
by Edith Wharton Coming, Aphrodite !
by Willa Carter Up in Michigan
by Ernest Hemingway "The Sensible Thing"
by F. Scott Fitzgerald A Telephone Call
by Dorothy Parker How Beautiful with Shoes
by Wilbur Daniel Steele The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown
by Damon Runyon Imagine Kissing Pete
by John O'Hara If They Hang You (excerpt, from The Maltese Falcon )
by Dashiell Hammett Lila the Werewolf
by Peter Beagle No Place for You, My Love
by Eudora Welty The Magic Barrel
by Bernard Malamud The Pot of Gold
by John Cheever Here Come the Maples
by John Updike The Spinoza of Market Street
by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
by Carson McCullers Texasville (excerpt)
by Larry McMurtry St. George
by Gail Godwin Innocence
by Harold Brodkey Lust
by Susan Minot The Pacific
by Mark Helprin Elena, Unfaithful
by Gloria Kurian Broder The Consolation of Philosophy
by Nicholas Delbanco Bluebeard's Second Wife
by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Dating Your Mom
by Ian Frazier Residents and Transients
by Bobbie Ann Mason His Own Where
by June Jordan An Interest in Life
by Grace Paley About the Authors
Acknowledgments " The book is in very nice condition with minor edgewear to the dust jacket.
No torn or ripped pages.
The side edges of the pages look slightly dirty with a few marks, mostly visible from the side view.
No other markings or writing. | 
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