Tales of pain and heartbreak

Read by Jim Norton, Eve Karpf & Vincent Marzello (Unabridged: 11hrs 3mins)

Featuring stories by Joseph Conrad, Ovid, Tagore, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield & more.

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.  When love’s flaws begin to stretch and amplify then heartbreak must surely follow.  Love requires not just yearning and devotion but commitment and protection of an ideal.  When that crumbles love finds pain, being in love becomes more difficult.  And what our literary greats share with us in this difficult volume brings that truth home.

In this compilation - 

1 - Sad Love - Short Stories - An Introduction

2 - The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad

3 - The Rendezvous by Ivan Turgenev

4 - Eveline by James Joyce

5 - Mr and Mrs Dove by Katherine Mansfield

6 - Two Little Soldiers by Guy de Maupassant

7 - On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather

8 - Pyramus & Thisbe by Ovid

9 - About Love by Anton Chekhov

10 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin

11 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield

12 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence

13 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev

14 - The Furnished Room by O Henry

15 - A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield

16 - The Shaker Bridal by Nathaniel Hawthorne

17 - Her Lover by Maxim Gorky

18 - Mrs Pierrepoint by Amy Levy

19 - The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde

20 - The Victory by Rabindranath Tagore

21 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

22 - The Jew by Ivan Turgenev

23 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad

24 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield

25 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce

26 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce