Anthony Hope 
Frivolous Cupid (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This 1895 collection, when published in America was strongly, if uselessly, repudiated by the author for copyright reasons. It consists of eight stories:  ‚Reluctance, ‚ ‚Why Men Don’t Marry, ‚ ‚A Change of Heart, ‚ ‚A Repentant Sinner, ‚ “Twixt Will and Will Not, ‚ ‚Which Shall it Be?‘ ‚Marriage by Compulsion‘ and ‚All’s Well that Ends Well.‘

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Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), who published under the name Anthony Hope, was a prolific English novelist and playwright.  His best-known works are the swashbuckling adventures Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau (1898).  Knighted in 1918 for his wartime service with the Ministry of Information, his autobiography Memories and Notes appeared in 1927.