Love stories come in various packages so I was quite surprised by the breadth of different love stories in this anthology. It's safe to say that I've read better love stories than the ones that made it in this book. I had to skim some stories because they were so dense and hard-hitting and employed many words (and paragraphs) to talk about something that could be narrowed down in one sentence. Not a sucker for brevity but long-winded sentences tend to bore me down.

Favorites in this book:

The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Lovers of their Time by William Trevor
Spring in Fialta by Vladimir Nabokov
Fireworks by Richard Ford
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
The Bear Came Over the Mountain by Alice Munro