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| My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead by Jeffrey Eugenides | |
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| Story | | No other aspect of the human experience regularly inspires such an outpouring of poetry, prose and philosophy as love. From passionate declarations to clinical analysis, writers of every age have been fascinated, tormented and inspired by love.
This beautifully produced collection of short stories will combine the best of contemporary and classic fiction on the theme of love, from Catullus to Alice Munro. Edited and introduced by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, this wonderfully heterodox look at love will include, amongst others, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, The Lady with the Lapdog by Anton Chekhov, and stories by Lorrie Moore, Milan Kundera and Guy de Maupassant.
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| Editors Details | | Jeffrey Eugenides graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, and received an MA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1986.
His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories and Granta?'s Best of Young American Novelists. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, has been translated into fifteen languages and made into a major motion picture. His second novel, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003.
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| How does the title relate to this collection of short stories? | | What makes a love story? | | What are the similarities between the stories? | | Which of the stories did you enjoy the most and why? | | What makes a good short story?
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| The Best American Short Stories 2004 by Lorrie Moore | | The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munroe | | Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
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