352 pp. Blue cloth with a gilt pictorial on the front panel; lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings by Gillian Zeiner. This anthology contains: Gigi and Gaston by Colette; The Princess Walter de la Mare; The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov; The Ugly Duckling by Frank O'Connor; Daniel with Guitar by Anthea Courtenay; The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde; On Guard by Evelyn Waugh; The Return by Charlotte Bronte; The Field of Blue Children by Tennessee Williams; The Mysterious Domain by Alain-Fournier; Mabel by W. Somerset Maugham; The Island by Shelagh Macdonald; The Right One by henry James; How Love Came to Big Joe Portagee by John Steinbeck; The Boy on the Hill by Brian Hayles; Lady Catherine's Mistake by Jane Austen; Sasha by Virginia Woolf; The Sire De Maletroit's Door by Robert Louis Stevenson; Ariadne on Naxos by Iain Finlayson; The Higher Pragmatism by O. Henry; The Wings of Morning by Helen Waddell; The Prophetic Pictures by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Guys and Dolls or The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon Runyon; Cherry by Ann Lawrence; Gatsby's Request by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Spectre Bridegroom by Wasington Irving; and Right at Last by Mrs Gaskell. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

ROMANCE STORIES

Publisher

Octopus Books, London

Publication Date

1979

Language

English

ISBN 10

0706410009

ISBN 13

9780706410006

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Gillian Zeiner;

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

Book Type

Book

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Romance

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Includes love stories by Colette, Walter de la Mare, Anton Chekhov, Frank O'Connor, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Bronte, Tennessee Williams, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry James, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson, O. Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Damon Runyon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Washington Irving, and Mrs. Gaskell, among others.

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