My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead : Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro

A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of short stories on the theme of love in its many forms: romantic, erotic, impossible, undying and exhausted. Featuring the very best contemporary and classic authors, including Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, Milan Kundera, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver and Alice Munro. 'Eugenides's artful a