Stories for Lovers - Margaret Atwoodová, Richmal Cromptonová, Virginia Woolfová, Dorothy Parker, E.M. Delafield, Amy Bloom, Malachi Whitaker, Ling Shu

An older couple remove all the mirrors from their lake house to lose sense of time; two girls are cast as Romeo and Juliet in their college play; a woman bargains with God to let the man she loves telephone her.Women writers of the twentieth century had a complex relationship with romantic fiction, at once a denigrated genre yet also often considered their only legitimate domain by the male literary establishment. The women in this collection complicate our over-simplified understanding of the ‘love... Zobrazit více