Love Stories

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Probationer's name was really Nella Jane Brown, but she was entered in the training school as N. Jane Brown. However, she meant when she was accepted to be plain Jane Brown. Not, of course, that she could ever be really plain. People on the outside of hospitals have a curious theory about nurses, especially if they are under twenty. They believe that they have been disappointed in love. They never think that they may intend to study medicine later on, or that they may think nursing is a good and honourable career, or that they may really like to care for the sick.

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Romance

276 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1919

About the author

Mysteries of the well-known American writer Mary Roberts Rinehart include The Circular Staircase (1908) and The Door (1930).

People often called this prolific author the American version of Agatha Christie. She is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it," though the exact phrase doesn't appear in her works, and she invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing.

Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues, and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies, such as The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), and The Bat (1959). Critics most appreciated her murder mysteries.

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Reviews

[Little Red Readinghood · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of old fashioned love stories written in the early 20th century. The first ones are set in hospitals where the nurse's white uniforms crackle with starch and rules are very strict. The last is not a conventional love story but tears at your heart strings. A view point from and about a long gone world.

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Available for free download at Gutenberg.

[Marci · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mary Roberts Rinehart really knows people. While the stories are all dated, they are all refreshing for being from a time when honor and virtue meant something.

[christine ✩]

you know i'm going through it when i start reading online-literature dot com stories at 2 in the morning again. by that i mean i am deliberately procrastinating all of my midterm papers. in my defense it's fall break & i'm stuck on campus :(
ok i'm going to be fr these stories SLAP and i'm not entirely sure why. i really was truly going through it with the 'are we downhearted? no!' one KJHFAF:OWEKWQJG
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[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took me until about halfway through the first story before I really got the hang of Rinehart's writing style and figured out what was going on. As in all collections of short stories, there are some stories here that did not hit for me but most of them were funny and sweet and I really enjoyed them.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Several of the stories are set in hospitals. They’re dated, but fun and sweet. They also manage to pull off the feat of being simultaneously moralistic and progressive.
The last two stories, on the other hand, are timeless, lovely, and moving.

[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very old fashioned, dare I say quaint? Stories2.8

[Jeanette Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Providence has a curious way of letting two lives run along, each apparently independent of the other. Parallel lines they seem, hopeless of meeting. Converging lines really, destined, through long ages, by every deed that has been done to meet as a certain point and there fuse."

[Saeeda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lots of small love stories , a little confusing in the beginning

It was a love story begin in the hospital about a student nurse who loved to take care of her patient and another nurse end to marry her patient who was going to die but was saved and a soldier who loved his lover reunited. The chief in boat and his lover and adopted child saved when the boat sunk