Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all.

In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. The Classic Love story is one that we all love to hear. But by classic do we mean the same story just retold again and again? In this volume our authors definitely take that on board but their narratives also bring different views, different understandings, greater depth, an emotional palette of hues and tints that fully colour this thing that we call love.

1 - Classic Love - Short Stories - An Introduction

2 - The Kiss by Anton Chekhov

3 - A Modern Lover - Pt 1 by D H Lawrence

4 - A Modern Lover - Pt 2 by D H Lawrence

5 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry

6 - The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde

7 - Love by Guy de Maupassant

8 - The Blizzard by Alexander Pushkin

9 - Bliss by Katherine Mansfield

10 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather

11 - Madame Rose Hanie by Khalil Gibran

12 - About Love by Anton Chekhov

13 - Mrs Pierrepoint by Amy Levy

14 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev

15 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis

16 - The New Paris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

17 - The Dance by Zona Gale

18 - Those Who Wait by Ethel Dell

19 - The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner

20 - A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf

21 - The Fullness of Life by Edith Wharton

22 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin

23 - Mr and Mrs Dove by Katherine Mansfield

24 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson

25 - The Grave by Guy de Maupassant

26 - The Muse's Tragedy by Edith Wharton

27 - The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov