DIANA SECKER TESDELL

A bouquet of great wedding stories--by turns funny, passionate, bittersweet, and romantic--by famous writers from across the past two centuries. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Lorrie Moore, and from Stephen Crane to Edwidge Danticat. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICS. The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month of May," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal Party," Joy Williams's "The Wedding," and Lorrie Moore's "Thank You For Having Me"--encompass comic wedding mishaps, engagements broken and mended, honeymoon adventures, and scenes both heartwarming and heartbreaking. There are glamorous weddings in Paris and New York, and more eccentric ones in the Wild West and on a remote island beach. There are nervous brides, forgetful grooms, meddling guests, interrupted nuptials, second thoughts, and second chances. Above all, there are all kinds of people--young and old, rich and poor, divorced and widowed, with or without children--joining together in the age-old quest for matrimonial happiness.

Here are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D H Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl, from the yearnings of unrequited romantic illusions in F... Estas son diecinueve historias firmadas por varios autores, y aquí hay todo tipo de sentimientos románticos: desde la cruda y erótica pasión de D H Lawrence y Colette a la endiablada comedia cínica de Dorothy Parker y Roald Dahl, desde las evocadoras ilusiones de romanticismo ilimitado en "Winter Dreams" de F Scott Fitzgerald a la agonizante locura de los celos en "That in Aleppo Once ...

The bestselling first volume in the Everyman's Pocket Classics series, a beautiful keepsake treasury of Christmas stories by great writers. Perfect for gift giving and holiday reading pleassure.El primer volumen de la serie Everyman's Pocket Classics, gran éxito de ventas, es un hermoso cofre de tesoros que incluye los mejores cuentos de Navidad, por los grandes escritores. Perfecto para unas vacaciones de placer literario.

Shaken and Stirred is an enticing literary cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries.In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppances at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents overimbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle liquor-soaked epiphanies; while John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and Robert Coover set their characters afloat on surreal, soul-revealing adventures. Here, too, are well-lubricated tales by Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dawn Powell, Clarice Lispector, Joy Williams, Penelope Lively, and many more.The settings include hotels and restaurants, a wine cellar in Italy, a cafe in Paris, a bar in Dublin, a New York nightclub, Jazz Age speakeasies, suburban lawn parties, and the occasional jail cell, and are peopled by lovers and loners, bartenders and chorus girls, youths taking their first sips and experienced tipplers waking with hangovers. Whether living it up or drowning their sorrows, the vividly drawn characters in these sparkling pages will leave you shaken and stirred.

New York Stories takes us on an irresistible tour of the city's high life, low life, nightlife, and everything in between - from the dazzling chaos of Times Square to the elegant calm of galleries in the Met, from the wisecracking Broadway guys and dolls of Damon Runyon to the glittering ballrooms of Edith Wharton and the jazz-soaked nightspots of Jack Kerouac and James Baldwin.

Como tema literario, la Navidad ha inspirado a todo, desde dramas domésticos íntimo, a los vuelos fantásticos de la imaginación, y toda la gama de su expresión está representada en esta colección maravillosamente atractivo. Duendes se divierten en el cementerio de uno de los primeros cuentos de Dickens, un amor-struck fantasma irrumpe en una casa de campo en Elizabeth Bowen 'Green Holly, demonios, brujas, cosacos y campesinos retozan en Gogol' The Night Before Christmas '. La difícil situación de los sitios frecuentados por menos afortunados de Chejov "Vanka" y Willa Cather 'de Navidad del ladrón', pero da un giro a carcajadas cómico Damon Runyon 'Dancing Dan de Navidad' y John Cheever "La Navidad es una temporada triste para los pobres". De la historia de intensa emoción de Nabokov de dolor de un padre en "Navidad" de gracioso, si no rompe el corazón de Truman Capote 'A Christmas Memory', de la niña judía Grace Paley en el desfile de Navidad en "la voz más alta" de las vacaciones de esquí familiar disfuncional en "Richard Ford Guardería '- cada una de las historias está impregnada de espíritu de la Navidad de una forma u otra, y todos son ricos y entretenidos de forma indeleble.