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Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer."—Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is DeadAll proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago. 826 Chicago is part of the network of seven writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826 ...
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro | Eugenides, Jeffrey | ISBN: 9780007257485 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
All proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago. 826 Chicago is part of the network of seven writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers ...
- Jeffrey Eugenides
A collection of love story excerpts from classic literary works, culled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, includes selections by such writers as Alice Munro, William Faulkner, and Milan Kundera, in a volume published to benefit the McSweeney literacy project 826 Chicago.
My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead is a literary masterpiece of amorous tales selected by Pulitzer Prize–winner Jeffrey Eugenides. From classics such as Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Lapdog” to such modern fare as Richard Ford’s “Fireworks,” these outstanding works capture the desire, obsession, power, and spirit of the emotion that drives and transforms our lives. Writers featured ...
6. Jan. 2009 · Read an Excerpt. My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro . Chapter One. First love and other sorrows. Harold Brodkey . Toward the end of March, in St. Louis, slush fills the gutters, and dirty snow lies heaped alongside porch steps, and everything seems to be suffocating in the embrace of a season that lasts too long.
Print. My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro. Jeffrey Eugenides, Ed., 2008. HarperCollins. 608 pp. ISBN-13: 9780061240386. Summary. "When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler.
