The world-class writers featured in this collection are adept at conjuring the depth of passion that surrounds all stories of love and loss. The short story form is perfect for capturing the uplift and dizzying heights that accompany a new object of affection, as well as the queasy unease and bottomless longing of lost loves. Includes The Lady with the Dog, by Anton Chekhov; Rappaccini’s Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Piazza, by Herman Melville; Coming, Aphrodite!, by Willa Cather; and The Dead, by James Joyce, and Clair de Lune by Guy de Maupassant. Narrated by Peter Marinker, Gerry O''Brien, Mark Meadows, Joanne McQuinn, and Cameron Stewart.
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