The Oxford book of English love stories
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The Oxford book of English love stories
Oxford University Press, 1996
大学図書館所蔵 全21件
注記
Biographical notes: p. [443]-450
収録内容
- The adventure of the Black Lady / Aphra Behn
- The picture / William Hazlitt
- The trial of love / Mary Shelley
- The heart of John Middleton / Elizabeth Gaskell
- Dennis Haggarty's wife / W. M. Thackeray
- The Parson's daughter of Oxney Colne / Anthony Trollope
- To Esther / Anne Ritchie
- Enter a dragoon / Thomas Hardy
- Olive's lover / C. C. K. Gonner
- The wish house / Rudyard Kipling
- Miss Winchelsea's heart / H. G. Wells
- A long-ago affair / John Galsworthy
- Claribel / Arnold Bennett
- Episode / W. Somerset Maugham
- Fifty pounds / A. E. Coppard
- The legacy / Virginia Woolf
- Samson and Delilah / D. H. Lawrence
- The tunnel / Joyce Cary
- Something childish but very natural / Katherine Mansfield
- Love and money / Phyllis Bentley
- Hubert and Minnie / Aldous Huxley
- A love story / Elizabeth Bowen
- Blind love / V. S. Pritchett
- The blue film / Graham Greene
- Stone boy with dolphin / Sylvia Plath
- An English unofficial rose / Paul Theroux
- The loveliness of the long-distance runner / Sara Maitland
- A small spade / Adam Mars-Jones
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Love, so the song goes, is a many-splendoured thing, and fiction has been trying for years both to promote and subvert the cliches it encourages. We turn to literature to learn what love is and what it should be, and readers of this collection will find consolation and inspiration in equal measure from some of the sharpest observers of this most essential human emotion.
In tracing the lineaments of `English love' through the fiction of 200 years we can see something of its infinite variety and of the shifting rules of the game. Sylvia Plath seems closer to Aphra Behn than to Elizabeth Gaskell or even Thomas Hardy in her concept of feminine modesty, while violence, or sheer incomprehension, enter the definition in the worlds of D. H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield. Romantic love is at the heart of the `love story' and these stories, while taking love as their
subject, do not always follow the conventional route. Bittersweet endings, ironic angles on traditional platitudes and other surprises make the insights of writers such as Anne Ritchie, Somerset Maugham or V. S. Pritchett always fresh and challenging. Simple or sophisticated, sometimes comic and
often very moving, these stories bring a delightful perspective to the mysteries of the English in love.
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