Anton Chekhov & O. Henry 
7 best short stories – Love 

It is possible that love is the most complex of human emotions. Whether platonic, lustful, fleeting or for life, this emotion always changes the lives it touches. So it comes as no surprise that love is a major literary theme, perhaps the most important. Check out these seven short stories by consecrated authors and see what each one of them has to say about love.
This book contains:

– The Lady With The Little Dog by Anton Chekhov.
– The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein by O. Henry.
– Federigo’s Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio.
– Regret by Guy de Maupassant.
– The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen.
– The Boarding House by James Joyce.
– The Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne by Anthony Trollope.

O autorze

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.
William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer.
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues, and other topical matters.
Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including The Decameron and On Famous Women.
Hans Christian Andersen, in Denmark usually called H.C. Andersen, was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales.