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The World of Love
[Front Book Jacket]
Twelve stories of l'amour by the most celebrated writers of our time.
The World of Love selected by Laurette Pizer
Graham Greene
Vladmir [sic] Nabokov
Dorothy Parker
Budd Schulberg
D.H. Lawrence
Collette, and others
[Back Book Jacket]
A NEW COLLECTION
The pulsing moods and swerving tempos of love are as many as there are ports in the world.
Here, in an original new collection, today's masters of the short story probe "The World of Love."
Each famous writer describes a special aspect...
COLETTE — The cure for the hollow anguish left when a deep and intimate affair is ended.
WILLIAM SANSOM — The unusual manner in which a hot-blooded Danish girl was faithful to her absent lover.
OSAMU DAZAI — A jailed Japanese sophisticate invents the mistress who would make it possible to go on living.
IVAN BUNIN — The remorseless summer heat of a Balkan port, and you can practically feel the passion between the young lieutenant and the little charmer. One of the supreme short stories of all time.
[This collection contains the following stories:
• The Lovely Leave, Dorothy Parker 1943
• The End of the Party, Graham Greene 1949
• The Magic Barrel, Bernard Malamud 1954
• Of Women, Osamu Dazai 1954
• Two Blue Birds, D.H. Lawrence 1928
• Traveller's Tears, James Stern 1951
• Tortoises for Luck, Luigi Pirandello 1939
• The Cure, Colette 1939
• A Short Digest of a Long Novel, Budd Schulberg 1943
• To Greenland, to Greenland, William Sansom 1950
• Sunstroke, Ivan Bunin
• Spring in Fialta, Vladimir Nabokov 1047
• The World of Love, Laurette Pizer 1962]
Twelve stories of l'amour by the most celebrated writers of our time.
The World of Love selected by Laurette Pizer
Graham Greene
Vladmir [sic] Nabokov
Dorothy Parker
Budd Schulberg
D.H. Lawrence
Collette, and others
[Back Book Jacket]
A NEW COLLECTION
The pulsing moods and swerving tempos of love are as many as there are ports in the world.
Here, in an original new collection, today's masters of the short story probe "The World of Love."
Each famous writer describes a special aspect...
COLETTE — The cure for the hollow anguish left when a deep and intimate affair is ended.
WILLIAM SANSOM — The unusual manner in which a hot-blooded Danish girl was faithful to her absent lover.
OSAMU DAZAI — A jailed Japanese sophisticate invents the mistress who would make it possible to go on living.
IVAN BUNIN — The remorseless summer heat of a Balkan port, and you can practically feel the passion between the young lieutenant and the little charmer. One of the supreme short stories of all time.
[This collection contains the following stories:
• The Lovely Leave, Dorothy Parker 1943
• The End of the Party, Graham Greene 1949
• The Magic Barrel, Bernard Malamud 1954
• Of Women, Osamu Dazai 1954
• Two Blue Birds, D.H. Lawrence 1928
• Traveller's Tears, James Stern 1951
• Tortoises for Luck, Luigi Pirandello 1939
• The Cure, Colette 1939
• A Short Digest of a Long Novel, Budd Schulberg 1943
• To Greenland, to Greenland, William Sansom 1950
• Sunstroke, Ivan Bunin
• Spring in Fialta, Vladimir Nabokov 1047
• The World of Love, Laurette Pizer 1962]
159 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1962
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