This wide-ranging collection of romantic tales features an international array of authors, including Sherwood Anderson, Alexander Pushkin, Anthony Trollope, and Giovanni Verga. In addition to new translations, the anthology features less-familiar stories not routinely found in similar compilations.Selections include and "A Misfortune and " by Anton Chekhov, in which a young wife attempts to end an affair; and "The Earthquake in Chile and " by Heinrich von Kleist, recounting a seventeenth-century romance; and "The She-Wolf and " by Giovanni Verga, a Sicilian tale of a mother and daughter in love with the same man; and Anthony Trollope's and "Miss Ophelia Gledd, and " in which a Boston debutante must choose between two suitors. Additional stories include D. H. Lawrence's portrait of sexual jealousy in and "The White Stocking and "; a bayou tale by Kate Chopin, and "Azelie and "; and and "The Other Woman and " by Sherwood Anderson, in which a groom waxes nostalgic on the night before his wedding.