Love and Other Similar Problems: An Anthology of Fiction

By bringing together classic texts from around the world at an affordable price, we hope to make great literature available to everybody.

LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND OTHER SIMILAR PROBLEMS includes fifteen stories and a novel, the masterful “Zuleika Dobson” by Max Beerbohm. Each text explores some aspect of love, passion, marriage, and their complexities, from the Ancient Greeks to the modern world.

Edited by Martin Monreal


TABLE OF CONTENTS


1. ANTON CHEKHOV 1860-1904 – THE LADY WITH THE DOG
Trans: Constance Garnett 1861–1946

2. SAKI 1870-1916 - TEA

3. LEO TOLSTOY 1828-1910 - THE KREUTZER SONATA
Trans: (probably) Maude, Louise Shanks, 1855-1939

4. JANE AUSTEN 1775-1817 - LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP

5. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY 1811-1863 - BLUEBEARD'S GHOST

6. ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1799-1837 - MARIE. A RUSSIAN LOVE STORY
Trans: Marie H. de Zielinska f. 1876

7. JOSEPH CONRAD 1857-1924 - AMY FOSTER

8. ELIA WILKINSON PEATTIE 1862-1935 - ON THE NORTHERN ICE

9. HOMER 750 BC- 650 BC? – THE RETURN TO ITHACA
Trans: Samuel Butler 1835-1902

10. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1804 – 1864 - WAKEFIELD

11. THEOPHILE GAUTIER 1811 – 1872 – CLARIMONDE
Trans: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904

12. JAMES JOYCE 1882 - 1941 - THE DEAD

13. PETER ABELARD 1079-1142- from “HISTORIA CALAMITATUM”
Trans: by Henry Adams Bellows 1803–1873

14. DANTE ALIGHIERI 1265—1321 - THE CARNAL SINNERS
Trans: Charles Eliot Norton 1827-1908

15. RUDYARD KIPLING 1865-1936 - BEYOND THE PALE

16. MAX BEERBOHM 1872 – 1956 - ZULEIKA DOBSON OR AN OXFORD LOVE STORY (1911)