A collection of classic love stories featuring "the one that got away:" light-hearted, with undertones of tragedy and a lingering comic finish.
The flight includes:
Aunt Philippa and the Men, by L.M. Montgomery
The Kiss, by Kate Chopin
The Victory, by Rabindranath Tagore
The Mystery of Wilhelm Rütter, by Helen Hunt Jackson
A Florentine Experiment, by Constance Fenimore Woolson
My thoughts: Short love stories with a hint of what might have been.
In these
five stories, we take a ride on the rocky (sometimes nauseating) rollercoaster
of love.
"Aunt
Phillipa and the Men" had a more historic feel to it. I wasn't sure if
there really was a prince somewhere in there or if that was just the name of
the town. It almost felt like a world out of Jane Austen.
The other
four weren't much better.
Stories just
seemed to babble on and on, never really leading to an interesting point. I
mean, they sounded compelling enough and I thought I'd get through them rather
quickly being that they were short stories. Sadly, that wasn't the case.
My rating: 2 stars
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